Observation of interface defects in thermally oxidized SiC using positron annihilation

2003 
Positron annihilation has been applied to study thermally oxidized 4H- and 6H-SiC. The SiC/SiO2 interface is found to contain a high density of open-volume defects. The positron trapping at the interface defects correlates with the charge of the interface determined by capacitance–voltage experiments. For oxides grown on n-SiC substrates, the positron annihilation characteristics at these defects are nearly indistinguishable from those of a silicon/oxide interface, with no discernable contribution from C-related bonds or carbon clusters. These results indicate that those defects at the SiC/oxide interface, which are visible to positrons, are similar to those at the Si/oxide interface. The positron annihilation characteristics suggest that these defects are vacancies surrounded by oxygen atoms.
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