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    Highly oriented large‐area silicon films have been deposited onto single crystal Si, '111' substrates. Illumination of the substrates with a mercury vapor lamp during deposition appeared to be essential for obtaining oriented films. The deposition was accomplished by an H2 reduction of . The energy of activation for this reaction was found to be 35.7 kcal/mole ± 5%. Utmost chemical cleanliness of the substrate surface is essential and more critical than for high temperature deposition.
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    In this work, two most typical applications of Cl2 etch relevant for sub-10 nm CMOS device production, namely sacrificial etch and selective deposition are presented. It is shown that Si0.7Ge0.3 sacrificial etch with Cl2 is possible in the temperature range of 350 °C–400 °C when He is used as a carrier gas. This temperature range can be further lowered when He is substituted with N2. Use of N2 also allows Si etch at very low temperatures (∼400 °C) which are not accessible for etching with HCl and potentially can be used for sacrificial etch of Si and Si-based epitaxial selective growth processes. Furthermore, a combination of Cl2 with high order Si and Ge precursors allowed development of cyclic selective epitaxial processes at temperatures as low as 400 °C with active dopant concentrations of ∼1 × 1020 cm−3 for Si0.7Ge0.3:B and ∼3 × 1019 cm−3 for Si0.7Ge0.3:P.
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