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Density functional theory is used to calculate the adsorption and diffusion behavior of Al atoms on clean, H-terminate, Cl-terminate Si(100) and Si(111) surfaces. The most stable position of Al atom adsorption and the diffusion path are different on Si(100) surface terminated by different methods. On the surface of clean Si(100), the Tr site is the most stable site for Al atom with an adsorption energy of 4.01 eV, and the H and M sites are the sub-stable stable sites with the adsorption energies of 3.51 eV, and 3.63 eV, respectively. When the Al atom is adsorbed at the Tr site on the clean Si(100) surface, it bonds with the Si atom to destroy the Si—Si bond in the dimer. Therefore Al is easily adsorbed at the Tr site of the trench and diffuses in a zigzag pattern along the trench. On the H-terminate and Cl-terminate Si(100) surface, Si—Si bonds in the dimer column are changed from cross to parallel. Al is easily adsorbed at the H position at the top of the dimer column, and diffuses along the line at the top of the dimer. The differential charge density shows that the Al atom transfers electrons to the Si atoms on the surface, and the surface H-terminate and Cl-terminate weaken the interaction between Al atoms and Si, and reduces the diffusion energy barrier of Al atoms. The Si(111) surface terminated by different methods has the same stable position (T4 site) for the adsorption of Al atoms. When Al atom adsorbs at the T4 site on the clean Si(100) surface, it bonds to Si atom, which located at the three T1 site, then Al atom is firmly fixed by the three Al—Si bonds with a bond length of 2.55 Å. Thus Al atom can has the largest adsorption energy and form the most stable state at the T1 site. With the diffusion and migration of Al atom, the bond between Al atom and the T1 site in the opposite direction appears to be broken. When Al atom migrating to the saddle point position is the most unstable. Here Al atom bonds to the Si atoms of the two adjacent T1 sites to form a bond with a length of 2.49 Å, which is 0.06 Å shorter than the initial Al—Si bond (2.55 Å). What’s more, the diffusion energy barrier of Al atom at this position is 0.65 eV, which impede Al atom to diffuse and migrate. When Al atom migrates to the H site, it rebonds to the three Si atoms on the adjacent surface and forms a bond with a length of 2.52 Å, which is 0.03 Å shorter than the Al—Si bond (2.55 Å) at the initial position. On the H-terminate and Cl-terminate Si(111) surface, Al atom doesn’t bond with Si atom for the H or Cl saturates the dangling bonds on the Si surface. The Si(111) surface terminated by different methods has the same stable position for adsorption of Al atoms. The diffusion paths of Al atoms are similar, and they are easy to be adsorbed to the top position (T4 site) of the second Si atom, and the path along T4 to H3 is diffused. Similarly, the H-terminate or Cl-terminate of Si(111) surface weakens the electron transfer between Al and Si atoms and reduces the diffusion energy barrier of Al atoms. Regardless of the Si(100) or Si(111) surface, the H-terminate and Cl-terminate Si surfaces are effective in reducing the diffusion barrier of Al atoms. -
Keywords:
- Si surfaces /
- Al /
- density functional theory /
- adsorption /
- diffusion
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图 1 Si(100)表面的几何结构, 其中深蓝色和红色用于标记Si-Si二聚体中高和低两种位置的Si原子 (a)俯视图; (b)侧视图
Figure 1. The geometry of the Si(100) surface, in which dark blue and red are used to mark the Si atoms in the high and low positions in the Si-Si dimer: (a) Top view; (b) side view.
图 2 Al原子吸附在清洁Si(100) Tr位点、H钝化Si(100) H位点和Cl钝化Si(100) 表面H位点 (a)俯视图; (b)侧视图; (c)差分电荷密度图
Figure 2. Al atom adsorption on the clean Si (100) Tr site, H-terminate Si (100) H site and Cl-terminate Si (100) surface H site: (a) Top view; (b) side view; (c) differential charge image.
图 3 Al原子吸附在(a)清洁、(b)氢化、(c)氯化Si(100)表面后差分电荷图和Bader电子转移情况
Figure 3. Bader charge transfer for Al atom adsorption on (a) the clean Si (100) Tr site, (b) H-terminate Si (100) H site and (c) Cl-terminate Si (100) surface H site.
图 4 Al原子在清洁、H钝化、Cl钝化Si(100)表面 (a)扩散路径和; (b)扩散能垒
Figure 4. Al atoms on clean, H-terminate and Cl-terminate Si(100) surfaces: (a) Diffusion paths; (b) diffusion barriers.
图 5 (a)和(b)分别为清洁Si(111)表面俯视图和侧视图T1, B2, H3和T4为Al原子在Si(111)表面的吸附的四个高对称位
Figure 5. (a) and (b) are the top and side views of the clean Si (111) surface, respectively; T1, B2, H3 and T4 are the four highly symmetric sites of adsorption of Al atoms on the Si(111) surface.
图 6 Al原子吸附在清洁、H钝化、Cl钝化Si(111)表面的(a)俯视图, (b)侧视图, (c)差分电荷密度图
Figure 6. Al atom adsorbed on clean, H-terminate, Cl-terminate Si(111) surface: (a) Top view; (b) side view; (c) differential charge image
图 7 Al原子在清洁、H钝化、Cl钝化Si(111)表面 (a)扩散路径; (b)扩散能垒
Figure 7. Al atoms on clean, H-terminate, and Cl-terminate Si(111) surfaces: (a) Diffusion paths; (b) diffusion barriers.
表 1 Al原子吸附在清洁、H钝化和Cl钝化Si(100)表面的吸附能Ead(eV)和结构参数; 其中Si—Si为二聚体Si—Si的键长, Si—Aladjacent为Al原子与邻近Si原子之间的距离
Table 1. Adsorption energy Ead (eV) and structural parameters of Al atom adsorbed on clean, H-terminate and Cl-terminate Si(100) surface; Si—Si is the bond length of dimer Si—Si, Si—Aladjacent is the distance between the Al atom and the adjacent Si atom.
Si(100) surface Site Eads/eV Si—Si/Å Si—Aladjacent/Å Bare Tr 4.01 2.77 2.45 M 3.96 2.43 2.52 H 3.63 2.45 2.45 H-terminate Tr 1.54 2.41 2.69 T 1.50 2.40 2.69 H 1.37 2.40 2.98 Cl-terminate T 2.03 2.42 2.87 M 1.17 2.40 1.17 B 2.04 2.42 4.09 H 1.80 2.39 2.83 
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表 3 Al原子吸附在清洁、H钝化、Cl钝化Si(100)和Si(111)表面的扩散路径和扩散能垒
Table 3. Diffusion path and diffusion energy of Al atom adsorbed on clean, H-terminate, Cl-terminate Si(100) and Si(111) surfaces.
Type Si(100) Si(111) Bare H-terminate Cl-terminate Bare H-terminate Cl-terminate Path Tr → M H → $H'$ H → $H'$ T4 → H3 T4 → H3 T4 → H3 Eads/eV 0.60 0.38 0.13 0.65 0.05 0.14
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表 2 Al原子吸附在清洁、H钝化、Cl钝化Si(111)的几何位点, 其中Eads为对应位点的吸附能, d1, d2, d3为Al原子与邻近三个Si原子之间的距离, h为竖直方向Al原子与邻近Si原子之间的距离
Table 2. Al atom adsorption in the clean, H-terminate, Cl-terminate Si (111) geometric site, where Eads is the adsorption energy of the adjacent site; d1, d2 and d3 are the distance between the Al atom and the adjacent three Si atoms, h is the distance between the Al atom and the adjacent Si atom in the vertical direction.
Si(111) surface Site Eads/eV d1/Å d2/Å d3/Å h/Å Bare T4 4.51 2.55 2.55 2.55 2.57 H3 4.35 2.52 2.52 2.52 5.37 H-terminate T4 1.36 3.09 3.06 3.05 2.71 H3 1.13 2.93 2.95 2.92 5.76 Cl-terminate T4 2.03 4.27 4.28 4.26 4.38 H3 1.99 4.08 4.14 4.18 7.35
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[1] Bak S J, Mun D H, Jung K C, et al. 2013 Electron. Mater. Lett. 9 367
Google Scholar
[2] Semond F 2015 MRS Bull. 40 412
Google Scholar
[3] Liu X Y, Li H F, Uddin A, et al. 2007 J. Cryst. Growth 300 114
Google Scholar
[4] Cheng K, Leys M, Degroote S, et al. 2006 J. Electron. Mater. 35 592
Google Scholar
[5] Yuan Y, Zuo R, Mao K, et al. 2018 Appl. Surf. Sci. 436 50
Google Scholar
[6] Cordier Y, Comyn R, Frayssinet E, et al. 2018 Phys. Status Solidi A 215 1700637
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[8] Wang X, Li H, Wang J, et al. 2014 Electron. Mater. Lett. 10 1069
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[9] Liu B T, Ma P, Li X L, et al. 2017 Chin. Phys. Lett. 34 058101
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[11] Lee S J, Jeon S R, Ju J W, et al. 2019 J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 19 892
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