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Nowadays, since the size of the fabricated devices shrinks to lower scales, the specifications of the materials produced via Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) refer to properties in micro- or nanoscale. Thus, the single scale conventional CVD modeling methods are not adequate. Two multiscale modeling frameworks are proposed to couple the co-existing scales i.e. macro-/micro- and macro-/nanoscales, in CVD processes. The frameworks consist of a reactor scale model (RSM) for the description of the transport phenomena in the bulk phase (macro- scale) of a CVD reactor and two models for the micro- and nanoscale: a) A Feature Scale Model (FSM) describing the growth of a film inside features on a predefined micro- topography on the wafer and b) a Nano Morphology Model (NMM) describing the morphology evolution during thin film deposition of an initially flat surface. The RSM is based on computational fluid dynamics techniques. The FSM is based on ballistic transport and the NMM on the kinetic Mo ...
Nowadays, since the size of the fabricated devices shrinks to lower scales, the specifications of the materials produced via Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) refer to properties in micro- or nanoscale. Thus, the single scale conventional CVD modeling methods are not adequate. Two multiscale modeling frameworks are proposed to couple the co-existing scales i.e. macro-/micro- and macro-/nanoscales, in CVD processes. The frameworks consist of a reactor scale model (RSM) for the description of the transport phenomena in the bulk phase (macro- scale) of a CVD reactor and two models for the micro- and nanoscale: a) A Feature Scale Model (FSM) describing the growth of a film inside features on a predefined micro- topography on the wafer and b) a Nano Morphology Model (NMM) describing the morphology evolution during thin film deposition of an initially flat surface. The RSM is based on computational fluid dynamics techniques. The FSM is based on ballistic transport and the NMM on the kinetic Monte Carlo method. Regarding the coupling of RSM with FSM it is accomplished by the correction of the boundary condition for the species equation. Concerning, the linking of RSM with NMM it is assumed that the deposition rate is indented of the spatial scale that is computed. Thus, only the RSM “feeds” NMM with computational, the growth rate, information. A crossbred multi-parallel method is implemented to accelerate the multiscale computations which combines domain decomposition techniques in the macroscale computations with a master-worker parallel technique for the micro- and nanoscale computations. The multi- parallel term, stems from the fact that different number of processors can be used during the computations in the different scales. Another aspect of the present thesis is the systemic analysis of CVD processes based on combining commercial CFD software (Fluent) and special purpose handmade codes. This combination enables capturing non linear aspects of the reactor performance, which otherwise could pass unnoticed, since commercial CFD codes are practically unable to detect and trace multiple solutions, circumvent turning point singularities along solution branches and compute unstable steady-state solutions. The proposed framework is based on the Recursive Projection Method (RPM). RPM enables Fluent to trace solution branches of nonlinear problems that have multiple solutions and induce convergence on unstable steady states in a systematic and efficient way.
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