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Clinton Lien1, Mahsa Konh2, Bo Chen1
1Department of Chemistry , University of California , Riverside , California 02521 , United States.
Abstract:
The use of gas-phase electron-impact activation of metalorganic complexes to facilitate atomic layer depositions (ALD) was tested for the case of (methylcyclopentadienyl)Pt(IV) trimethyl (MeCpPtMe3) on silicon oxide films. Uptake enhancements of more than 1 order of magnitude were calculated from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data. On the basis of the measured C:Pt ratios, the surface species were estimated to mainly consist of MeCpPt moieties, likely because of the prevalent formation of [MeCpPtMe x- nH]+ ions after gas-phase ionization (as determined by mass spectrometry). Counterintuitively, more extensive adsorption was observed on thick SiO2 films than on the native thin SiO2 film that forms on Si(100) wafers, despite the former having virtually no surface OH groups. The adsorption of MeCpPt fragments on silicon oxide surfaces was determined by density functional theory (DFT) calculations to be highly exothermic and to favor attachment to Si-O-Si bridge sites.
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