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* [[Specific Process Knowledge/Thin film deposition/ALD Picosun R200/AlN deposition using ALD2/Acceptance_test_AlN|<b>results from the acceptance test (old material) </b>]].
* [[Specific Process Knowledge/Thin film deposition/ALD Picosun R200/AlN deposition using ALD2/Acceptance_test_AlN|<b>results from the acceptance test (old material) </b>]].
==AlN with N<sub>2</sub> plasma== <!-- Experiment 161102A -->
The test was done with 300 cycles at 350 &deg;C where the growth rate was measured to be '''0.0625 nm/cycle'''.
{| border="2" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5"  align="none"
|-
|
!TMA
!N<sub>2</sub> plasma
|-
!Nitrogen flow
|150 sccm
|100 sccm
|-
!Pulse time
|0.1 s
|21.0 s
|-
!Purge time
|4.0 s
|4.0 s
|-
|}
<gallery caption="" widths="500px" heights="500px" perrow="2">
image:AlN with N2 Ellipsometer.png
</gallery>
Uniformity profile across 150 mm Si wafer based on 49 measurement points measured with ellipsometer. The values for the grown oxide thickness can be seen in the table below.
{| border="2" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5"  align="none"
!Parameter
!Average
!Min.
!Max.
!Std.Dev
!%Range
|-
!Thickness (nm)
|18.77
|18.02
|19.73
|0.41
|9.0619
|}
<b>Pernille Voss Larsen, Mikkel Dysseholm Mar and Tanja Amport, DTU Nanolab, 2016-2017.</b>
==AlN with N<sub>2</sub> plasma on trenches== <!-- Experiment 161102B and 161104A -->
The test was done with 1000 cycles at 350 &deg;C.
{| border="2" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5"  align="none"
|-
|
!TMA
!N<sub>2</sub> plasma
|-
!Nitrogen flow
|150 sccm
|100 sccm
|-
!Pulse time
|0.1 s
|26.0 s
|-
!Purge time
|4.0 s
|15.0 s
|-
|}
Additionally the picoflow was used for the TMA precursor.
<gallery caption="" widths="500px" heights="500px" perrow="2">
image:AlN with N2 trenches2 SEM.png
image:AlN with N2 trenches SEM.png
image:AlN with N2 trenches3 SEM.png
</gallery>
As the SEM images above show only a thin layer of AlN could be deposited at the bottom of the trenches. On the top the growth was significantly higher which lead to a tree like growth.
Whereas in the images below no picoflow was used with 500 cycles and the same other parameters as in the run shown above. Without the picoflow a more homogeneous coverage could be obtained and an average growth rate of '''0,05585 nm/cycle''' was measured. 
<gallery caption="" widths="500px" heights="500px" perrow="2">
image:AlN 00.png
image:AlN bottom 03.png
image:AlN top 01.png
</gallery>
<b>Pernille Voss Larsen, Mikkel Dysseholm Mar and Tanja Amport, DTU Nanolab, 2016-2017.</b>

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General Information

The AlN process should never run above 350 °C due to the decomposition of the trimethylaluminium. As already mentioned in the general ALD2 (PEALD) page oxides and nitrides cannot be deposited at the same time. Since the aluminium nitride requires the plasma source we only run all nitride processes without the thermal lid. Hence the chamber volume is bigger than with the thermal lid which causes that the substrate temperature is around 50 °C lower than the setpoint.

Result from acceptance test