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In Situ and Real-Time Nanoscale Monitoring of Ultra-Thin Metal Film Growth Using Optical and Electrical Diagnostic Tools

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Continued downscaling of functional layers for key enabling devices has prompted the development of characterization tools to probe and dynamically control thin film formation stages and ensure the desired film morphology and functionalities in terms of, e.g., layer surface smoothness or electrical properties. In this work, we review the combined use of in situ and real-time optical (wafer curvature, spectroscopic ellipsometry) and electrical probes for gaining insights into the early growth stages of magnetron-sputter-deposited films. Data are reported for a large variety of metals characterized by different atomic mobilities and interface reactivities. For fcc noble-metal films (Ag, Cu, Pd) exhibiting a pronounced three-dimensional growth on weakly-interacting substrates (SiO 2 , amorphous carbon (a-C)), wafer curvature, spectroscopic ellipsometry, and resistivity techniques are shown to be complementary in studying the morphological evolution of discontinuous layers, and determining the percolation threshold and the onset of continuous film formation. The influence of growth kinetics (in terms of intrinsic atomic mobility, substrate temperature, deposition rate, deposition flux temporal profile) and the effect of deposited energy (through changes in working pressure or bias voltage) on the various morphological transition thicknesses is critically examined. For bcc transition metals, like Fe and Mo deposited on a-Si, in situ and real-time growth monitoring data exhibit transient features at a critical layer thickness of~2 nm, which is a fingerprint of an interface-mediated crystalline-to-amorphous phase transition, while such behavior is not observed for Ta films that crystallize into their metastable tetragonal β-Ta allotropic phase. The potential of optical and electrical diagnostic tools is also explored to reveal complex interfacial reactions and their effect on growth of Pd films on a-Si or aGe interlayers. For all case studies presented in the article, in situ data are complemented with and benchmarked against ex situ structural and morphological analyses.
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hal-03036823 , version 1 (02-12-2020)

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Jonathan Colin, Andreas Jamnig, Clarisse Furgeaud, Anny Michel, Nikolaos Pliatsikas, et al.. In Situ and Real-Time Nanoscale Monitoring of Ultra-Thin Metal Film Growth Using Optical and Electrical Diagnostic Tools. Nanomaterials, 2020, 10, ⟨10.3390/nano10112225⟩. ⟨hal-03036823⟩
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