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François M. d'Heurle
Researcher at IBM
Publications - 152
Citations - 5738
François M. d'Heurle is an academic researcher from IBM. The author has contributed to research in topics: Silicon & Silicide. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 152 publications receiving 5636 citations. Previous affiliations of François M. d'Heurle include Royal Institute of Technology & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Kinetics of formation of silicides: A review
François M. d'Heurle,P. Gas +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classified the kinetics of silicide growth into three different categories: diffusion controlled, nucleation controlled, and reaction rate controlled, with the aim of understanding both the phenomenology of growth and the specific atomic mechanisms of phase formation.
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Nucleation of a new phase from the interaction of two adjacent phases: Some silicides
TL;DR: In this paper, a class of reactions where nucleation dominates the formation of a new phase is discussed, and a salient feature of these reactions is the absence of any equilibrium temperature, although the nucleation temperatures are relatively well defined within narrow limits.
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Note on the origin of intrinsic stresses in films deposited via evaporation and sputtering
TL;DR: In this paper, a broad and brief review of the question of intrinsic stresses in films deposited via evaporation and sputtering is provided, with a sufficient number of references, and some attention is paid to a third model where compressive stresses could result from impurity adsorption not at the top surface of the growing films, but one monolayer below.
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Formation of thin films of NiSi: Metastable structure, diffusion mechanisms in intermetallic compounds
TL;DR: In this paper, the formation of NiSi films from the reaction of Ni2Si with (100) and (111) silicon substrates was found to be controlled by a lattice diffusion process with an activation energy of 1.70 eV.
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Formation of thin films of CoSi2: Nucleation and diffusion mechanisms
TL;DR: In this article, the role of nucleation in the formation of CoSi 2 over crystalline silicon and over amorphous silicon was investigated and it was shown that nucleation is a small driving force for the transition from CoSi to CoSi.