Atomic layer deposition of silicon nitride thin films: a review of recent progress, challenges, and outlooks

X Meng, YC Byun, HS Kim, JS Lee, AT Lucero… - Materials, 2016 - mdpi.com
With the continued miniaturization of devices in the semiconductor industry, atomic layer
deposition (ALD) of silicon nitride thin films (SiNx) has attracted great interest due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Optical, structural and composition properties of silicon nitride films deposited by reactive radio-frequency sputtering, low pressure and plasma-enhanced …

LY Beliaev, E Shkondin, AV Lavrinenko, O Takayama - Thin Solid Films, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a comparative study of optical properties of silicon nitride thin films deposited by
reactive radio-frequency (R-RF) sputtering, low pressure chemical vapor deposition …

High-speed deposition of silicon nitride thick films via halide laser chemical vapor deposition

R Tu, Z Liu, Q Xu, S Zhang, Q Li, X Zhang… - Journal of the European …, 2023 - Elsevier
Silicon nitride shows significant potential in the field of surface protection for electronic
devices owing to its excellent insulation performance and mechanical properties. In this …

Flexible organic–inorganic hybrid layer encapsulation for organic opto-electronic devices

S Majee, MF Cerqueira, D Tondelier, B Geffroy… - Progress in Organic …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work we produce and study the flexible organic–inorganic hybrid moisture barrier
layers for the protection of air sensitive organic opto-electronic devices. The inorganic …

Low-temperature fabrication of silicon nitride thin films from a SiH4+ N2 gas mixture by controlling SiNx nanoparticle growth in multi-hollow remote plasma chemical …

K Kamataki, Y Sasaki, I Nagao, D Yamashita… - Materials Science in …, 2023 - Elsevier
High-quality amorphous silicon nitride (SiN x) thin films were fabricated by the controlled
growth of nanoparticles during SiH 4+ N 2 multi-hollow remote plasma chemical vapor …

The effect of argon plasma treatment on the permeation barrier properties of silicon nitride layers

S Majee, MF Cerqueira, D Tondelier, B Geffroy… - Surface and Coatings …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work we produce and study silicon nitride (SiN x) thin films deposited by Hot Wire
Chemical Vapor Deposition (HW-CVD) to be used as encapsulation barriers for flexible …

Excellent organic/inorganic transparent thin film moisture barrier entirely made by hot wire CVD at 100 C

D Spee, K van der Werf, J Rath… - physica status solidi …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We present a silicon nitride/polymer hybrid multilayer moisture barrier for flexible electronics
made entirely by hot wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) at substrate temperatures …

Characteristics of silicon nitride deposited by VHF (162 MHz)-plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition using a multi-tile push–pull plasma source

KS Kim, N Sirse, KH Kim, AR Ellingboe… - Journal of Physics D …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
To prevent moisture and oxygen permeation into flexible organic electronic devices formed
on substrates, the deposition of an inorganic diffusion barrier material such as SiN x is …

Characterization of silicon nitride thin films deposited by hot-wire CVD at low gas flow rates

CJ Oliphant, CJ Arendse, TFG Muller, D Knoesen - Applied surface science, 2013 - Elsevier
We examined the chemical, structural, mechanical and optical properties of amorphous
hydrogenated silicon nitride thin films deposited by hot-wire chemical vapour deposition …

Nanoplasmonic optical switch based on Ga-Si3N4-Ga waveguide

W Zhao, Z Lu - Optical Engineering, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this paper, we propose an optical switch based on a metal-insulator-metal plasmonic
waveguide with Si3N4 core sandwiched between two gallium (Ga) metal layers. Combining …