F4280 Thin Films Deposition and Surface Modification Technologies

Faculty of Science
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Petr Vašina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Lenka Zajíčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Lenka Zajíčková, Ph.D.
Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Lenka Zajíčková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Condensed Matter Physics – Physics Section – Faculty of Science (70,00 %), Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science (30,00 %)
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The course provides an introduction to the deposition of thin films and surface modifications. The overview of the methods is structured into several basic types: physical vapor deposition - PVD (vacuum evaporation and magnetron sputter-deposition), chemical methods (chemical vapor deposition - CVD, atomic layer deposition - ALD and epitaxy) and plasmachemical methods (plasma modification of surfaces, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition - PECVD). The students will learn about the principles and the processes taking place during different deposition methods and modification of surfaces. The course informs about experimental conditions and requirements of different methods. The theoretical information are applied to specific examples of the processes important for industrial applications. The lectures are supplemented by laboratory tasks providing examples of several processes in the laboratories of Department of Physical Electronics and CEITEC Nano Research Infrastructure.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will be able to: explain principles of thin film deposition utilizing gases/vapors;
explain basic processes taking place during material evaporation and sputtering of targets with energetic particle beams;
describe processes taking place in plasma of electrical discharges;
name different types of plasma sources/reactors for the deposition of thin films and surface modifications;
describe various methods of thin film deposition (vacuum evaporation, magnetron sputtering, CVD, ALD, epitaxy, PECVD) with the emphasis on differences in underlaying processes and experimental requirements of these methods;
suggest suitable thin film deposition method considering the final requested parameters of the product.
Syllabus
  • 1. Overview of thin film deposition technologies, methods for surface modification and fabrication of microstructures and microdevices. Aplication of thin films and surface modifications. (Zajíčková)
  • 2. Gas kinetics (definition of terms gas and vapors, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of velocities, ideal-gas law, Knudsen equation, mean free path, transport properties). (Zajíčková)
  • 3. Theory of thin film deposition (introduction to the process of deposition, chemical reactions, physisorption and chemisorption, surface diffusion, nucleation, surface free energy, mode of thin film growth). (Zajíčková)
  • 4. Deposition of thin films by vacuum evaporation - example of physical vapor deposition (PVD) (thermodynamics of evaporation, evaporatino rate, evaporation of alloys and compounds, sources for vacuum evaporation, transport, usual methods for deposition monitoring). (Zajíčková)
  • 5. Chemical methods for thin film deposition - chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD). (Zajíčková)
  • 6. Epitaxy - molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), CVD epitaxy, liquid epitaxy, atomic layer epitaxy (ALEp). (Zajíčková)
  • 7. Introduction to plasma and plasmachemical processes, plasma sources/reactors for the deposition of thin films and surface modifications. (Zajíčková)
  • 8. Experimental requirements of vacuum and plasmachemical reactors for deposition and surface modification. (Zajíčková)
  • 9. Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition - PECVD. Deposition of carbon films (crystalline diamond and amorphous diamond like carbon - DLC films), amorphous silicon, silicon oxides and nitrides films, organosilicon plasma polymers as protective coatings, amine and carboxyl plasma polymers for bioapplications. (Zajíčková)
  • 10. PVD methods of sputter-deposition. Processes induced by impinging particles on the material surface (sputtering, energy transfer, secondary electron emission, implantation). Parameters influencing the speed of sputtering, properties of sputtered particles. Analytical calculation of sputtering yield, simulation of processes using freeware program TRIM. (Vašina)
  • 11. Magnetron sputter-deposition of thin films. Influence of magnetic field. Reactive sputtering – properties of the process controlled by the reactive gas partial pressure or flow rate. Growth mechanism of metal films, nitrides and oxides. Influence of ion bombardment and substrate temperature on the quality and properties of deposited films. Modern trends in magnetron sputtering – IPVD (ion PVD) and pulsed sputtering. Aplication of PVD and IPVD – modern materials, microelectronics. (Vašina)
  • 12. Introduction to the deposition reactors at DPE and CEITEC Nano Research Infrastructure. Deposition of thin films by PECVD, ALD, electron beam evaporation and magnetron sputtering. (Zajíčková, Vašina)
Literature
  • D. Depla et al Reactive sputter depositon, Springer Series in Material Science 109 2008
Teaching methods
The course is based on lectures that provide a detailed overview of the subject. The block of two laboratory exercises is organized at the end of semester. In the frame of this laboratories the students will train two methods of thin film deposition, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition and magnetron sputtering.
Assessment methods
individual talk
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
If fewer than 5 students are enrolled, the course will be taught in a block scheme agreed upon at the beginning of the semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, spring 2012 - acreditation, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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