Adsorption, Desorption, and Decomposition of HCl and HBr on Ge(100): Competitive Pairing and Near-First-Order Desorption Kinetics
Abstract
We have investigated the surface chemistry of coadsorbed hydrogen and halogen atoms on Ge(100), produced by dissociative chemisorption of HCL and HBr, by temperature-programmed desorption. The initial sticking probability, S(sub 0) , for HCL decreases from 0.6 at a substrate temperature of 270 K to 0.05 at 400 K, indicative of a precursor state to adsorption. For HBr S(sub 0) is constant at 0.7 over the same temperature range. A fraction f of adsorbed hydrogen atoms desorb associatively as H2 near 570 K, while the remaining (1-f) H atoms recombine with adsorbed halogen atoms and desorb as the hydrogen halide (HX) near 580 - 590 K. The activation energies for desorption of H2, HCL, and HBr are all approximately 40 kcal/mol. For both HCL and HBr f is 0.7 at low initial coverage and decreases slightly to 0.6 at saturation. The fraction f of adsorbed halogen atoms left on the surface following the competitive desorption of H2 and HX desorb as the dihalides GeC12 and GeBr2 near 675 K and 710 K, respectively. Desorption of H2, HCL, and HBr occurs with near-first-order kinetics, similar to the behavior of hydrogen adsorbed alone, which we attribute to preferential pairing induced by the pi bond on unoccupied Ge dimers. We introduce and solve a generalized doubly-occupied dimer model incorporating competitive pairing of H+H, H+X, and X+X on Ge dimers to explain the near-first order kinetics. The model quantitatively accounts for both the desorption kinetics and the relative yields of H2 and HX with pairing energies of = approx. kcal/mol. Germanium, Desorption kinetics, Chemical vapor deposition, Atomic layer epitaxy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA273504
Entities
People
- Mark P. D'evelyn
- Stephen M. Cohen
- Yuemei L. Yang
Organizations
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute