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Study on the characteristics of transition metals for TSSG process of SiC single crystal

  • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
  • Abbr : J. Korean Cryst. Growth Cryst. Technol.
  • 2022, 32(2), pp.55-60
  • DOI : 10.6111/JKCGCT.2022.32.2.055
  • Publisher : The Korea Association Of Crystal Growth, Inc.
  • Research Area : Engineering > Materials Science and Engineering
  • Received : April 6, 2022
  • Accepted : April 11, 2022
  • Published : April 30, 2022

leeseungjune 1 Yong-Jae Yoo 1 Seongmin Jeong ORD ID 1 Si-Young Bae ORD ID 1 Lee, Won Jae 2 SHIN Yunji 1

1한국세라믹기술원
2동의대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this study, a heat treatment experiment was conducted to select a new melt composition that can easily control the unintentionally doped nitrogen (N-UID) without degrading the SiC single crystal quality during TSSG process. The experiment was carried out for about 2 hours at a temperature of 1900°C under Ar atmosphere. The used melt composition is based on either Si-Ti 10 at% or Si-Cr 30 at%, and also Co or Sc transition metals, which are effective for carbon solubility, were added at 3 at%, respectively. After the experiment, the crucible was cross-sectionally cut, and evaluated the Si-C reaction layer on the crucible-melt interface. As a result, with Sc addition, Si-C reaction layers uniformly occurred with a Si-infiltrated layer (~550 µm) and a SiC interlayer (~23 µm). This result represented that the addition of Sc is an effective transition metal with high carbon solubility and can feed carbon sources into the melt homogeneously. In addition, Sc is well known to have low reactivity energy with nitrogen compared to other transition metals. Therefore, we expect that both growth rate and Nitrogen UID can be controlled by Si-Sc based melt in the TSSG process.

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