Archive > Volume 19 Issue 5 > 2023,19(5):274-278. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-023-2017-1 CSTR:[cstr] Prev Next
Effect of substrate bias on the properties of plasma deposited organosilicone (pp-HMDSN) thin films
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Abstract:
Organosilicone thin films have been deposited by plasma polymerization (pp) in a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system using hexamethyldisilazane (HMDSN:C6H19Si2N) as a monomer precursor, at different biases of the stainless-steel substrate holder. The substrate bias affected film thickness, surface morphology, chemical composition and photoluminescence (PL) emission. For a negatively biased substrate, it is found that the film thickness is the minimum, while the porosity and PL emission are the maximum. For a positively biased substrate, the thickness and the ratio of Si/N are the maximum which correspond to a blue shift of the PL emission in comparison with the case of non-biased grounded substrate. In addition, the characterization of the plasma using a single cylindrical Langmuir probe has been performed to obtain information about both the electron density and the positive ion energy, where it can be concluded that the ion energy plays a major role in determining film thickness.
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