Fabrication of nanocrystalline Si:H nanodot arrays with controllable porous alumina membranes

被引:7
作者
Ding, G. Q. [1 ]
Zheng, M. J. [1 ]
Xu, W. L. [1 ]
Shen, W. Z. [1 ]
机构
[1] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Lab Condensed Matter Spect & Optoelect Phys, Dept Phys, Shanghai 200030, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
silicon; nanostructrures; anodic oxidation;
D O I
10.1016/j.tsf.2005.07.318
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Based on the successful growth of hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) thin films with Si natural quantum dots (NQDs) of 3-6 nm in mean size, we have fabricated nc-Si:H artificial quantum nanodot (AQD) arrays on Si substrates by a low-cost and industrialized plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition technique through free-standing ultrathin porous alumina membranes (PAMs). In order to well control the morphology of the nc-Si:H AQD arrays, we have presented detailed information on the fabrication of PAMs with controllable thickness (1001000 nm) and pore diameter (50-90 nm). In every nc-Si:H AQD, there are similar to 10(2) Si NQDs, and the sheet densities of nc-Si:H AQDs and Si NQDs are over 1 x 10(10) cm(-2) and 3 x 10(11) cm(-2), respectively. The combination of the AQD fabrication through PAM masks with the Si NQDs in nc-Si:H provides us an easy and practical way for the realization of nc-Si:H based nanodevice arrays with true quantum size effects. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
引用
收藏
页码:182 / 185
页数:4
相关论文
共 9 条
[1]   Temperature-dependent optical properties of B-doped nc-Si:H thin films in the interband region [J].
Chen, H ;
Shen, WZ .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 2004, 96 (02) :1024-1031
[2]   Observation of low-dimensional state tunneling in nanocrystalline silicon/crystalline silicon heterostructures [J].
Chen, XY ;
Shen, WZ .
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 2004, 85 (02) :287-289
[3]   Nanometric superlattices: non-lithographic fabrication, materials, and prospects [J].
Chik, H ;
Xu, JM .
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS, 2004, 43 (04) :103-138
[4]   Conduction mechanism of hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon films [J].
He, YL ;
Hu, GY ;
Yu, MB ;
Liu, M ;
Wang, JL ;
Xu, GY .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1999, 59 (23) :15352-15357
[5]   ORDERED METAL NANOHOLE ARRAYS MADE BY A 2-STEP REPLICATION OF HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES OF ANODIC ALUMINA [J].
MASUDA, H ;
FUKUDA, K .
SCIENCE, 1995, 268 (5216) :1466-1468
[6]   Molecular-beam epitaxial growth of GaAs and InGaAs/GaAs nanodot arrays using anodic Al2O3 nanohole array template masks [J].
Mei, X ;
Kim, D ;
Ruda, HE ;
Guo, QX .
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 2002, 81 (02) :361-363
[7]   ELECTRICAL-PROPERTIES OF A SILICON QUANTUM-DOT DIODE [J].
NICOLLIAN, EH ;
TSU, R .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 1993, 74 (06) :4020-4025
[8]   ELECTROCHEMICAL KINETIC-STUDY ON THE GROWTH OF POROUS ANODIC OXIDE-FILMS ON ALUMINUM [J].
PATERMARAKIS, G ;
MOUSSOUTZANIS, K .
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA, 1995, 40 (06) :699-708
[9]   An improved method to strip aluminum from porous anodic alumina films [J].
Xu, TT ;
Piner, RD ;
Ruoff, RS .
LANGMUIR, 2003, 19 (04) :1443-1445