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Physical vapor deposition (PVD) is a technique for making thin films at low temperatures and is widely used in planar technology in electronics. It consists of evaporating or sputtering a solid, such as a metal, an alloy, or a mixture of solids, in a vacuum and condensing the compound on the substrate to be covered. In certain variations the vapor is reacted with gases introduced in the vacuum. That variation is reactive evaporation or reactive sputtering. The product can be a polycrystalline deposit or a powder. 

For metals a sublimation temperature is chosen that corresponds to a vapor pressure of 10 Torr. This vapor pressure is not sufficient for all cases. Platinum and boron, e.g., have a vapor pressure of 10 Torr at 2100°C, yet platinum evaporates four times faster than boron at this temperature. The same difference in evaporation rate between metals and nonmetals is observed for osmium and carbon. Both have a vapor pressure of 10 Torr at 2650°C but their evaporation rates are as different as in the case of platinum and boron. Apparently the activation energy for evaporation of nonmetals is higher than for metals. Ease of evaporation or a high vapor pressure does not guarantee fast deposition rates even for metals. Although magnesium and zinc are volatile, they are difficult to deposit because they do not condense easily as their closed outer electron shell confers helium-like properties on their gaseous atoms. 

Not only polycrystalline or epitaxial layers of metals and many ceramics are made with PVD methods but also metal powders. Metal is evaporated (by resistive heating) in an inert gas at a pressure in which the mean free path length of the atoms is small with respect to the size of the reactor. The evaporated metal atoms combine on colliding with each other and form small particles that can be harvested on a cold finger by thermodiffusion. 

The development of a novel technique for making known solid compounds often leads to the discovery of novel solids, e.g., carbon. Notwithstanding the enormous amount of information about molecular compounds containing carbon that has been collected by many generations of organic chemists, the molecular 

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a synthetic technique for making inorganic solids from the vapor phase by reacting gaseous precursors in a flow reactor,  

Physical vapor deposition is a technique whereby physical processes, such as evaporation, sublimation or ionic impingement on a target, facilitate the transfer of atoms from a solid or molten source onto a substrate. Evaporation and sputtering are the two most widely used PVD methods for depositing films. 

Metal alloys, such as Al u, Co r or Ni-Cr, can generally be evaporated directly from a single heated source. If two constituents of the alloy evaporate at different rates causing the composition to change in the melt, two different sources held at different temperatures may be employed to ensure uniform deposition. Unlike metals and alloys, inorganic compounds evaporate in such a way that the vapor composition is usually different from that of the source. The resulting molecular structure causes the film stoichiometry to be different from that of the source. High purity films of virtually all materials can be deposited in vacuum by means of electron beam evaporation. 

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is an example of an evaporative method. This growth technique can provide film materials of extraordinarily good quality which are ideal for research purposes. However, the rate of growth is very low compared to other methods, which makes it of limited use for production of devices. In MBE, the deposition of a thin film can be accurately controlled at the atomic level in an ultra-high vacuum torr, or 

For polycrystalline films, the film grain structure resulting from sputter deposition typically has many crystallographic orientations without preferred texture. However, evaporative deposition leads to highly textured films for which the grain size is typically greater than that of the sputtered films. Sputter deposition offers better control in maintaining stoichiometry and film thickness uniformity than evaporative deposition, and has the flexibility to deposit essentially any crystalline and amorphous materials. These issues are discussed in more detail in Section 1.8. 

Evaporation, or vacuum deposition, is a simple physical vapor deposition (PVD) process in which atoms or molecules are evaporated from the source thermally, travel without collisions with residual gas molecules in the deposition chamber, and condense on the substrate. Two heating mechanisms are commonly used in 

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Reprinted with permission from Im, H., Bantz, K.C., Lindquist, N.C., Haynes, C.L., Oh, S.-H., 2010. Vertically oriented sub-lO-nm plasmonic nanogap arrays. Nano Lett. 10, 2231—2236. 

In Wasa, K., Kanno, I., Kotera, H. (Eds.), Handbook of Sputtering Technology, second ed. William Andrew Publishing, Oxford, pp. 3—39. 

HgiCli crystal growing by PVD in a closed ampoule. Hg2Cl2 can only be grown from the vapor because it is not soluble and it decomposes before it melts. (Photo courtesy of Joo Soo Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville.) 

An extremely high vacuum (10 Torr), free of any electrically active impurity (see Chapter 20), is required for successful production of good superlattices. The inner walls usually have a cryogenic liner filled with LN2 to trap any condensable residual gases. Since pumping such a system down to the vacuum levels is a time onsuming process, a sample 

Schematic of an MBE facility. Materials to be deposited are stored in the effusion cells with shutters to control the flow. The sample is heated and rotated by a motor to assure a uniform coating. 

In Section 3.4, we considered the intercalation of surface molecules into the interstices available within a host compound. We consider the case where the surface molecules remain on the surface to form a thin crystalline film. Thin-film formation is at the heart of integrated-circuit manufacturing. An example of 

Because the source material will be heated to produce the vapor pressure, the process is conducted in a high vacuum to prevent chemical reaction of the source material. This represents an advantage for this method since the incorporation of impurities into the film is minimized with the use of such a vacuum. Several methods are used to heat the source material. The simplest is resistive heating. The source material is placed in a ceramic boat, which is then placed into a heater. Alternatively, the source material itself can be formed into a filament, heated, and the vapors produced that way. The temperature of the source materials is varied by varying the power to the resistive heater. Since this approach sends source material vapor in all directions, the source material and substrate are often placed inside a foil tent so that the cleanup is simpler. 

For those materials that do not produce an appropriate vapor with resistive heating, other heating methods are employed, including electron beam and 

Electron beam physical vapor deposition (EB-PVD) is accomplished by directing a narrow beam of high-powered ( 20 kV, 500 mA) electrons at the source material. The energy released by these electrons when they are absorbed by the source material causes local melting in the source material. The entire source material is not melted, only the portion irradiated by the electron beam. This production of a small pocket of melted source material contained within solid source material is sometimes referred to as skulling. Hence, the vapor produced does not suffer contamination from the vessel containing the source material. Singh and Wolfe (2005) reviewed the use of electron beam—physical vapor deposition for the fabrication of nano- and macro-structured components. 

The most common method for large-scale physical vapor deposition is sputtering. Sputtering is fundamentally different from the three heating methods 

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Metallization layers are generally deposited either by CVD or by physical vapor deposition methods such as evaporation (qv) or sputtering. In recent years sputter deposition has become the predominant technique for aluminum metallization. Energetic ions are used to bombard a target such as soHd aluminum to release atoms that subsequentiy condense on the desired substrate surface. The quaUty of the deposited layers depends on the cleanliness and efficiency of the vacuum systems used in the process. The mass deposited per unit area can be calculated using the cosine law of deposition ... 

The epitaxy reactor is a specialized variant of the tubular reactor in which gas-phase precursors are produced and transported to a heated surface where thin crystalline films and gaseous by-products are produced by further reaction on the surface. Similar to this chemical vapor deposition (CVE)) are physical vapor depositions (PVE)) and molecular beam generated deposits. Reactor details are critical to assuring uniform, impurity-free deposits and numerous designs have evolved (Fig. 22) (89). 

Physical Vapor Deposition Processes. The three physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes are evaporation, ion plating, and sputtering... 

There are several vacuum processes such as physical vapor deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD), sputtering, and anodic vacuum arc deposition. Materials other than metals, ie, tetraethylorthosiHcate, silane, and titanium aluminum nitride, can also be appHed. 

Y. G. Yang, R. A. Johnson, H. N. G. Wadley. A Monte Carlo simulation of the physical vapor deposition of nickel. Acta Mater 45 1455, 1997. 

Ge(IV). The observation of Ge(IV) in the XPS analysis is most probably the result of chemical attack by ambient oxygen. Such an attack has also been reported for Ge on Au made by Physical Vapor Deposition [68]. 

Chemical vapor deposition may be defined as the deposition of a solid on a heated surface from a chemical reaction in the vapor phase. It belongs to the class of vapor-transfer processes which is atomistic in nature, that is the deposition species are atoms or molecules or a combination ofthese. Beside CVD, they include various physical-vapor-deposition processes (PVD) such as evaporation, sputtering, molecular-beam epitaxy, and ion plating. 

Introduction ofthetermsCFDandPLD to distinguish chemical vapor deposition from physical vapor deposition. ]... 

The interconnecting holes are narrow and deep (at times less than 0.25 im wide and up to 2 im or more in depth) and, after a diffusion-barrier layer is applied, it must be filled completely with a high-conductivity metal (usually aluminum or tungsten) to provide the low-resi stance plug for inter-layer connections. Typically, CVD provides better step coverage and conformity than sputtering and other physical-vapor deposition processes. 

Protecting a surface from corrosion by coating can be accomplished by a number of well-established processes which include paints, metal plating (with zinc or cadmium), diffusion, thermal spraying, and, more recently, vapor deposition processes. Of these physical vapor deposition (PVD) is used extensively in corrosion protection. Typical applications are ... 

Chemical vapor deposition competes directly with other coating processes which, in many cases, are more suitable for the application under consideration. These competing processes comprise the physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes of evaporation, sputtering, and ion plating, as well as the molten-material process of thermal spray and the liquid-phase process of solgel. A short description of each process follows. For greater detail, the listed references should be consulted. 

Mattox, D., Physical Vapor Deposition, Boyes Publications, Westwood, NJ (1997)... 

From a reaction engineering viewpoint, semiconductor device fabrication is a sequence of semibatch reactions interspersed with mass transfer steps such as polymer dissolution and physical vapor deposition (e.g., vacuum metallizing and sputtering). Similar sequences are used to manufacture still experimental devices known as NEMS (for nanoelectromechanical systems). 

Chemical vapor deposition is distinguished from physical vapor deposition processes by the use of a chemical reaction, usually a decomposition, to create the chemical species that is deposited. An example important to the microelectronics industry is the formation of polycrystalline silicon by the decomposition of silane ... 

Diserens, M., Patscheider, J., and Levy, F., "Mechanical Properties and Oxidation Resistance of Nanocomposite TiN-SiN Physical-Vapor-Deposited Thin Films, Surf. Coat. Technol,Vol. 120 Ill, 1999,65. 

Recent trials and long-term field tests have shown that the combined application of plasmanitriding and physical vapor deposited (PVD) hard-coating currently appears to be the best solution, both in terms of improved wear life and antisticking characteristics. 

This is why companies like Berstorff use PVD-coated screws for this purpose as they exhibit better wear protection than screws with nitrided or stellited surfaces. PVD stands for physical vapor deposition and refers to the evaporation of chrome and its accelerated application onto the surface. In combination with nitrogenous gases, the metal ions form hard nitrides that multiply the wear resistance of the screws. 

This method is one of the dry methods in which no chemical reaction is involved. Preparation of ultrafine particles by physical vapor deposition (PVD) dose not require washing and calcination, which are indispensable for chemical preparation such as in CP and DP methods. As waste water and waste gases are not by-produced, the arc plasma (AP) method is expected to grow in popularity as one of the industrial production methods for gold catalysts and as a clean preparation method. 

Physical vapor deposition Electron-beam evaporation Electroplating Reactive ion etching Wet etching Molecular beam epitajty Chemical-mechanical polishing Rapid thermal processing Vacuum sealing... 

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