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Scaling Analysis of Chemical-Vapor-Deposited Tungsten Films by Atomic Force Microscopy

Tatsuo Yoshinobu and Hiroshi Iwasaki

(Received June 28, 1993; accepted for publication September 18, 1993)

We have studied the static surface roughness of 500-nm-thick tungsten chemical-vapor-deposited polycrystalline films on length scales between 5 and 5×10⁴ nm, using atomic force microscopy. The interface width scales as a power of the system size for small system sizes (<1000 nm) but is constant for large sizes, which is in agreement with nonequilibrium interface growth theory. The scaling exponent (0.75±0.05) for short-length scales appears to be consistent with the recent prediction based on a conservative volume growth model. In the long-range regime, the rms value becomes larger as the substrate temperature is lowered.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/32/L1562/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.32.L1562

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