摘要：
The drive to continually decrease the device dimensions of integrated circuits in the microelectronics industry requires that deposited films approach subnanometer thicknesses. Hence, a fundamental understanding of the physics and chemistry of film deposition is important to obtain better control of the properties of the deposited film. We use ab initio quantum chemistry calculations to explore chemical reactions at the atomic level. Important thermodynamic and kinetic parameters are then obtained, which can then be used as inputs in constructing first-principles based reactor models. Studies of new systems for which data are not available can be conducted as well. In this dissertation, we use quantum chemistry simulations to study the deposition of gate dielectrics for metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices. The focus of this study is on heterogeneous reactions between gaseous precursors and solid surfaces. Adsorbate-surface interactions introduce additional degrees of complexity compared to the corresponding gas-phase or solid-state reactions. The applicability and accuracy of cluster approximations to represent solid surfaces are first investigated. The majority of our results are obtained using B3LYP density functional theory (DFT). The structures of reactants, products, and transition states are obtained, followed by calculations of thermochemical and kinetic properties. Whenever experimental data are available, qualitative and/or quantitative comparisons are drawn. Atomistic mechanisms and the energetics of several reactions leading to the deposition of SiO2, Si3N4, and potential new high-κ materials such as ZrO2, HfO2, and Al 2O3 have been explored in this dissertation. Competing reaction pathways are explored for each of the deposition reactions studied. For example, the potential energy surface (PES) for ZrO2 ALD shows that the reactions proceed through a trapping-mediated mechanism, which results in a competition between desorption and decomposition of th
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