Gas radicals

Much of the direct experimental information about the radicals and ions in the silane plasma comes from mass spectrometry. Fig. 2.9 ows the concentrations as a function of argon dilution for a typical low power plasma. Gallagher and Scott (1987) find that SiHj accounts for at least 80 % of the gas radicals in a pure silane plasma. Argon dilution increases the concentration of other radicals and these eventually dominate the plasma. 

Of all the gas radicals near the surface, atomic hydrogen can penetrate farthest into the material. The diffusion of hydrogen and its removal and adsorption at the surface, described in Section 2.3.3, show that, at the deposition temperature, interstitial hydrogen can move quite rapidly into the bulk where it readily attaches to silicon dangling bonds. Hydrogen therefore has the fortimate property of being able to remove any subsurface defects left by the deposition process. 

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The free radicals which have only a transient existence, like -CHa, C2H5 or OH, and are therefore usually met with only as intermediates in chemical reactions, can usually be prepared and studied directly only at low pressures of the order of 1 mm, when they may be transported from the place of preparation in a rapidly streaming inert gas without suffering... 

Unstable species such as O, FI and N atoms, molecular radicals and vibrationally excited diatomics can be injected by passmg the appropriate gas tluough a microwave discharge. In a SIFT, the chemistry is usually straightforward since there is only one reactant ion and one neutral present in the flow tube. 

The only phenomena that caimot be reproduced by such treatments were observed at moderate gas pressures between 1 and 100 bar. This indicates that the kinetics of tlie reaction in this density regime may be influenced to a large extent by reactant-solute clustering or even chemical association of atoms or radicals with solvent molecules. 

Zawadski A G and Hynes J T 1989 Radical recombination rate constants from gas to liquid phase J. Phys. Chem. 93 7031-6... 

Howard M J and Smith I W M 1983 The kinetics of radical-radical processes in the gas phase Prog. Reaction Kin. 12 57-200... 

Figure B2.5.1 schematically illustrates a typical flow-tube set-up. In gas-phase studies, it serves mainly two purposes. On the one hand it allows highly reactive shortlived reactant species, such as radicals or atoms, to be prepared at well-defined concentrations in an inert buffer gas. On the other hand, the flow replaces the time dependence, t, of a reaction by the dependence on the distance v from the point where the reactants are mixed by the simple transfomiation with the flow velocity vy...

T-Jhile the stoichiometric relations have rendered the above problem tractable by permitting an explicit solution of the dusty gas model flux relations, it should be pointed out that they do not lead to equally radical simplifications with all flux models. In the case of the Feng and Stewart models [49- for example, Che total flux of species r is formed by in-... 

The introduction of additional alkyl groups mostly involves the formation of a bond between a carbanion and a carbon attached to a suitable leaving group. S,.,2-reactions prevail, although radical mechanisms are also possible, especially if organometallic compounds are involved. Since many carbanions and radicals are easily oxidized by oxygen, working under inert gas is advised, until it has been shown for each specific reaction that air has no harmful effect on yields. 

TABLE 4.4 Electron Affinities of Atoms, Molecules, and Radicals Electron affinity of an atom (molecule or radical) is defined as the energy difference between the lowest (ground) state of the neutral and the lowest state of the corresponding negative ion in the gas phase. A(g) + e = A-(g) Data are limited to those negative ions which, by virtue of their positive electron affinity, are stable. Uncertainty in the final data figures is given in parentheses. Calculated values are enclosed in brackets. ... 

Nxylylene system, substituents affect it only to a minor extent. AH parylenes are expected to have a similar molar enthalpy of polymerization. An experimental value for the heat of polymerization of Parylene C has appeared. Using the gas evolution from the Hquid nitrogen cold trap to measure thermal input from the polymer, and taking advantage of a peculiarity of Parylene C at — 196°C to polymerize abmptiy, perhaps owing to the arrival of a free radical, a = —152 8 kJ/mol (—36.4 2.0 kcal/mol) at — 196°C was reported (25). The correction from — 196°C to room temperature is... 

Irradiation of ethyleneimine (341,342) with light of short wavelength ia the gas phase has been carried out direcdy and with sensitization (343—349). Photolysis products found were hydrogen, nitrogen, ethylene, ammonium, saturated hydrocarbons (methane, ethane, propane, / -butane), and the dimer of the ethyleneimino radical. The nature and the amount of the reaction products is highly dependent on the conditions used. For example, the photoproducts identified ia a fast flow photoreactor iacluded hydrocyanic acid and acetonitrile (345), ia addition to those found ia a steady state system. The reaction of hydrogen radicals with ethyleneimine results ia the formation of hydrocyanic acid ia addition to methane (350). Important processes ia the photolysis of ethyleneimine are nitrene extmsion and homolysis of the N—H bond, as suggested and simulated by ab initio SCF calculations (351). The occurrence of ethyleneimine as an iatermediate ia the photolytic formation of hydrocyanic acid from acetylene and ammonia ia the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter has been postulated (352), but is disputed (353). 

Activation Parameters. Thermal processes are commonly used to break labile initiator bonds in order to form radicals. The amount of thermal energy necessary varies with the environment, but absolute temperature, T, is usually the dominant factor. The energy barrier, the minimum amount of energy that must be suppHed, is called the activation energy, E. A third important factor, known as the frequency factor, is a measure of bond motion freedom (translational, rotational, and vibrational) in the activated complex or transition state. The relationships of yi, E and T to the initiator decomposition rate (kJ) are expressed by the Arrhenius first-order rate equation (eq. 16) where R is the gas constant, and and E are known as the activation parameters. 

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