TY - JOUR
T1 - Nitrogen depletion of indium nitride films during Elastic Recoil Detection analysis
AU - Shrestha, Santosh K.
AU - Timmers, Heiko
AU - Butcher, K. Scott A.
AU - Wintrebert-Fouquet, Marie
AU - Chen, Patrick P.T.
PY - 2005/6
Y1 - 2005/6
N2 - Elastic Recoil Detection analysis of different types of indium nitride films has been performed using a 200 MeV Au beam. Recoil ions were detected with a gas ionisation detector featuring a large detection solid angle. Severe and non-linear nitrogen depletion has been observed, with films grown by RF-sputtering losing nitrogen more quickly than MBE-grown films. Assuming the formation of molecular nitrogen as the decisive step leading to nitrogen loss, the nitrogen depletion process has been modelled using the bulk molecular recombination model. The model allows accurate extrapolations of the original nitrogen content of the material. Since the other important elements can also be quantified, the stoichiometry of the film can thus reliably be obtained from Elastic Recoil Detection analysis. All the films analysed have been found to have excess nitrogen.
AB - Elastic Recoil Detection analysis of different types of indium nitride films has been performed using a 200 MeV Au beam. Recoil ions were detected with a gas ionisation detector featuring a large detection solid angle. Severe and non-linear nitrogen depletion has been observed, with films grown by RF-sputtering losing nitrogen more quickly than MBE-grown films. Assuming the formation of molecular nitrogen as the decisive step leading to nitrogen loss, the nitrogen depletion process has been modelled using the bulk molecular recombination model. The model allows accurate extrapolations of the original nitrogen content of the material. Since the other important elements can also be quantified, the stoichiometry of the film can thus reliably be obtained from Elastic Recoil Detection analysis. All the films analysed have been found to have excess nitrogen.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nimb.2005.01.022
DO - 10.1016/j.nimb.2005.01.022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:19844371012
SN - 0168-583X
VL - 234
SP - 291
EP - 307
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
IS - 3
ER -