Introduction to PECVD

Nanotechnology: A Maker's Course
PECVD Basics
Link to the full Coursera course: www.coursera.org/learn/nanote...
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The Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) is the Pratt School of Engineering’s core facility that enables materials, devices, and integrated systems research at Duke University in a variety of fields that include nanotechnology, biomaterials and biomedical engineering, information sciences, optoelectronics, sensor technology, and renewable energy. SMIF is housed in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS). The facility consists of 7,000 square feet of clean room fabrication space, and nearly 3,000 square feet of specialized laboratory space for characterization and imaging equipment. SMIF is part of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN) in partnership with similar facilities at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The RTNN is one of 16 organizations nationwide that comprise the National Science Foundation sponsored National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program.
SMIF is open to all trained students, staff, faculty, and researchers and is used for both research and educational purposes. SMIF has nearly 700 users, of which 2/3 come from Duke University and 1/3 come from external academic institutions or industry. SMIF staff trains students and researchers to use the lab equipment and instruments themselves, and provides guidance and support in developing processes and methodologies that utilize these capabilities. Alternatively, SMIF staff can run samples for researchers as a service. SMIF also coordinates various educational and outreach activities.

[@ibrakhimzhumabayev9759]

thank you very much. i am master student and only now understood the principle of this method! very simply and clear! thank you from Kazakhstan!

[@samuelnjoroge7248]

Nan you are such a great instructor.Thank you. watchig from Nairobi, Kenya, Africa.

[@chmfn]

Very simple and easy demonstration. Thumbs up.

[@yongliu669]

Thank you. A helpful introduation of PECVD

[@GilianesWorld]

Thumbs up, great explanation.

[@yasinylmaz5uck]

Thank you for lesson!.

[@endukunenu]

excellent presentation

[@rahulpawar217]

Wonderful experience

[@BillDemos]

Great video, thanks. Instantly subscribed! Kindest regards from Greece.

[@MarHam1987]

very informative, thank you very much for the effort

[@cat1983_]

Спасибо!

[@nowshadamin3052]

Excellent!

[@ngochuymai1601]

Very good 👍

[@AliAhmed-fi1oj]

this explanation makes pecvd as easily understandable as 1,2,3.

[@elkstereidolon3523]

Except you don't understand 1,2,3. You beLIEve you do though.

[@DanielKrafft]

If I’m not mistaken, I believe this is a similar process to synthetic diamond creation... diamond seed being the substrate and using carbon heavy gases

[@BillDemos]

Yeap! This is exactly the process. If you fill the chamber with methane (CH4, a carbon rich gas), you will get graphite deposited as it is mostly favoured to diamond sp3 bonds. However, having also hydrogen in the mix, eats away the graphitic phases and leaves only the SP3 bonds on the substrate. The mixture normally used is around 1% methane to 99% hydrogen. The same mixture analogy is also used when depositing very high quality silicon: 99% hydrogen to 1% silane (SiH4). This method is terribly slow and is more suited to making graphene, which is a single layer of diamond. To make bulk diamond, you should utilise techniques used to make bulk crystals: you melt carbon and then let it solidify. Carbon melts at 4500 degrees, so you either use the "skull" crubible technique, or materials that can withstand higher temperatures (there are some synthetic materials that have a higher melting point to carbon!). The only problem with carbon is that when it reaches its melting point it wants to sublime (directly evaporate from the solid phase), instead of going firstly into its liquid phase. To counter this, you have to keep it under pressure. Hence the "High Pressure High Temperature" name of this method. I am making a ver 3 vacuum chamber at the moment so that I show a few techniques on my channel for high quality advanced thin film deposition. Currently I only have electronic engineering videos but will soon get into material sciences.

[@pawankumarverma7840]

@@BillDemos Hii bill sir,. What is happening inside the plasma of reactive gases (CH4+H2), supplied by Rf power, inside pecvd system ???? pls. Can u explain... And how rf plasma created?? What is present inside the rf plasma, like charges, electron, methane molecules etc.

[@BillDemos]

@@pawankumarverma7840 Hi Pawan. A molecule, such as H2 for example, shares bonds between atoms. In that state, the atoms are happy as they are at their lowest energy. When you give them some energy, be it through raising temperature, or applying electricity, they become separated! So, from H2, two atoms in a molecule, you end up with all atoms separated! Not only that, but most atoms in a plasma also lose some of their electrons. So a plasma is a soup of mono-atomic species/elements and electrons. Once an atom loses its partners, it becomes very reactive, it wants to bond again with something. If it happens to reach the substrate where you are laying the diamond, it becomes part of it. You can make plasma in many ways. One way is to put electrodes in your chamber, and apply DC or AC high voltage. If the AC frequency is high, like in the range of millions of cycles per second, you call this RF plasma. The good thing with RF plasma is that it can be coupled to your system in a remote way: i.e. you don't need the electrodes within the system, but you can have them placed outside. This way, the metal that makes these electrodes does not contact and therefore does not contaminate the plasma.

[@Liberal_right]

Great!

[@slep5039]

This is a great, concise, understandable explanation. Wonderful!

[@dukeuniversity-smif2466]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ky965]

Appreciate your explanation so much!!

[@dukeuniversity-smif2466]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheFi123456]

Great 👍🏾

[@evikesapidou1757]

Clear and simple explanation! This was really helpful

[@dukeuniversity-smif2466]

Glad to hear!

[@boonboom3528]

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[@kiu8179]

nice video

[@kprajiv]

What all substrates can be used in this process?

[@shahfahad7248]

kindly tell us the price of this pecvd machine

[@Drew_Hurst]

What radio frequency is used for the plasma? It's voltage pulsed with RF right? If so, what's the freq range? Thanks

[@dukeuniversity-smif2466]

The RF generator utilizes 13.56 MHz. This is a popular frequency for laboratory RF applications and is one of the frequencies reserved in the ISM radio band (Industrial, Scientific and Medical). The ISM band is observed internationally and is regulated in the US by the FCC.

[@Drew_Hurst]

@@dukeuniversity-smif2466 Very interesting! Surprised it isn't higher. Appreciate the extra info. Thanks for Your reply

[@andrehildebrandt2465]

Hello, what size are the nanoparticles of molten gold emitted when evaporating due to high temperature?

[@noellemassa4593]

i was going to ask the same thing!

[@R-Kannada-DevOps]

Greate info but Ms.Adithi don't make presentation like reading book

[@leenshehadeh4308]

thanks alot.... but where is the rest of series..etching techniques????

[@dukeuniversity-smif2466]

You can find the rest of this series in our Coursera course. It is free to access! www.coursera.org/learn/nanotechnology

[@thiruarasu1395]

😊

[@nicolaslacombe1979]

Does this make Duke important?

[@pawankumarverma7840]

Hii mam,. What is happening inside the plasma of reactive gases (CH4+H2), supplied by Rf power, inside pecvd system ???? pls. Can u explain... And how rf plasma created?? What is present inside the rf plasma, like charges, electron, methane molecules etc.

[@jessstuart7495]

"Clean the chamber so its ready for the next user." Ha!