Structural change and heteroepitaxy induced by rapid thermal annealing of CaF/sub 2/ films on Si(111)

Abstract

In this article we show that heteroepitaxial CaF2 films can be induced on Si~111! with a rapid thermal anneal. The change from preferentially oriented polycrystals to a single crystal with type- B epitaxy is visible by different structural techniques. The x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results indicate the presence of a reacted layer at the CaF2 /Si interface with a pronounced increase of fluorine atoms at this interface. Transmission electron microscopy results show that big structural changes occur due to the thermal pulse.