標題: Ab Initio Chemical Kinetics for SiH(3) Reactions with Si(x)H(2x+2) (x=1-4)
作者: Raghunath, P.
Lin, M. C.
應用化學系分子科學碩博班
Institute of Molecular science
公開日期: 30-Dec-2010
摘要: Gas-phase kinetics and mechanisms of SiH(3) reactions with SiH(4), Si(2)H(6), Si(3)H(8), and Si(4)H(10), processes of relevance to a-Si thin-film deposition, have been investigated by ab initio molecular orbital and transition-state theory (TST) calculations. Geometric parameters of all the species involved in the title reactions were optimized by density functional theory at the B3LYP and BH&HLYP levels with the 6-311++G(3df,2p) basis set. The potential energy surface of each reaction was refined at the CCSD(T)/6-311++G(3df,2p) level of theory. The results show that the most favorable low energy pathways in the SiH3 reactions with these silanes occur by H abstraction, leading to the formation of SiH(4) + Si(x)H(2x+1)(silanyl) radicals. For both Si(3)H(8) and n-Si(4)H(10) reactions, the lowest energy barrier channels take place by secondary Si-H abstraction, yielding SiH(4) + s-Si(3)H(7) and SiH(4) + s-Si(4)H(9), respectively. In the i-Si(4)H(10) reaction, tertiary Si-H abstraction, has the lowest barrier producing SiH(4) + t-Si(4)H(9). In addition, direct SiH(3)-for-X substitution reactions forming Si(2)H(6) + X (X = H or silanyls) can also occur, but with significantly higher reaction barriers. A comparison of the SiH(3) reactions with the analogous CH(3) reactions with alkanes has been made. The rate constants for low-energy product channels have been calculated for the temperature range 300-2500 K by TST with Eckart tunneling corrections. These results, together with predicted heats of formation of various silanyl radicals and Si(4)H(10) isomers, have been tabulated for modeling of a-Si:H film growth by chemical vapor deposition.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp1082196
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/26202
ISSN: 1089-5639
DOI: 10.1021/jp1082196
期刊: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume: 114
Issue: 51
起始頁: 13353
結束頁: 13361
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