Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces E-Book

Franklin Tao

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• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung

This book presents both fundamental knowledge and latest achievements of this rapidly growing field in the last decade. It presents a complete and concise picture of the the state-of-the-art in the field, encompassing the most active international research groups in the world. Led by contributions from leading global research groups, the book discusses the functionalization of semiconductor surface. Dry organic reactions in vacuum and wet organic chemistry in solution are two major categories of strategies for functionalization that will be described. The growth of multilayer-molecular architectures on the formed organic monolayers will be documented. The immobilization of biomolecules such as DNA on organic layers chemically attached to semiconductor surfaces will be introduced. The patterning of complex structures of organic layers and metallic nanoclusters toward sensing techniques will be presented as well.

Leseprobe

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Contributors

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Motivation for a Book on Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces

1.2 Surface Science as the Foundation of the Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces

1.3 Organization of this Book

Chapter 2: Surface Analytical Techniques

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Surface Structure

2.3 Surface Composition, Electronic Structure, and Vibrational Properties

2.4 Kinetic and Energetic Probes

2.5 Conclusions

Chapter 3: Structures of Semiconductor Surfaces and Origins of Surface Reactivity with Organic Molecules

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Geometry, Electronic Structure, and Reactivity of Clean Semiconductor Surfaces

3.3 Geometry and Electronic Structure of H-Terminated Semiconductor Surfaces

3.4 Geometry and Electronic Structure of Halogen-Terminated Semiconductor Surfaces

3.5 Reactivity of Hydrogen- or Halogen-Terminated Semiconductor Surfaces in Solution

3.6 Summary

3.7 Acknowledgments

Chapter 4: Pericyclic Reactions of Organic Molecules at Semiconductor Surfaces

4.1 Introduction

4.2 [2+2] Cycloaddition of Alkenes and Alkynes

4.3 [4+2] Cycloaddition of Dienes

4.4 Cycloaddition of Unsaturated Organic Molecules Containing One or More Heteroatom

4.5 Summary

4.6 Acknowledgment

Chapter 5: Chemical Binding of Five-Membered and Six-Membered Aromatic Molecules

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Five-Membered Aromatic Molecules Containing One Heteroatom

5.3 Five-Membered Aromatic Molecules Containing Two Different Heteroatoms

5.4 Benzene

5.5 Six-Membered Heteroatom Aromatic Molecules

5.6 Six-Membered Aromatic Molecules Containing Two Heteroatoms

5.7 Electronic and Structural Factors of the Semiconductor Surfaces for the Selection of Reaction Channels of Five-Membered and Six-Membered Aromatic Rings

Chapter 6: Influence of Functional Groups in Substituted Aromatic Molecules on the Selection of Reaction Channel in Semiconductor Surface Functionalization

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Multifunctional Aromatic Reactions on Clean Silicon Surfaces

6.3 Summary

Acknowledgments

Chapter 7: Covalent Binding of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Systems

7.1 Introduction

7.2 PAHs on Si(100)-(2×1)

7.3 PAHs on Si(111)-(7×7)

7.4 Summary

Chapter 8: Dative Bonding of Organic Molecules

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Dative Bonding of Lewis Bases (Nucleophilic)

8.3 Dative Bonding of Lewis Acids (Electrophilic)

8.4 Summary

Chapter 9: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Studies of Conjugated Dienes on Semiconductor Surfaces

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Computational Methods

9.3 Reactions on the Si(100)-(2 × 1) Surface

9.4 Reactions on the SiC(100)-(3×2) Surface

9.5 Reactions on the SiC(100)-(2×2) Surface

9.6 Calculation of STM Images: Failure of Perturbative Techniques

Chapter 10: Formation of Organic Nanostructures on Semiconductor Surfaces

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Experimental

10.3 Results and Discussion

10.4 Conclusions

10.5 Acknowledgment

Chapter 11: Formation of Organic Monolayers Through Wet Chemistry

11.1 Introduction, Motivation, and Scope of Chapter

11.2 Techniques Characterizing Wet Chemically Functionalized Surfaces

11.3 Hydrosilylation of H-Terminated Surfaces

11.4 Electrochemistry of H-Terminated Surfaces

11.5 Use of Halogen-Terminated Surfaces

11.6 Alcohol Reaction with H-Terminated Si Surfaces

11.7 Outlook

11.8 Acknowledgments

Chapter 12: Chemical Stability of Organic Monolayers Formed in Solution

12.1 Reactivity of H-Terminated Silicon Surfaces

12.2 Reactivity of Halogen-Terminated Silicon Surfaces

12.3 Carbon-Terminated Silicon Surfaces

12.4 Applications and Strategies for Functionalized Silicon Surfaces

12.5 Conclusions

Chapter 13: Immobilization of Biomolecules at Semiconductor Interfaces

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Molecular and Biomolecular Interfaces to Semiconductors

13.3 DNA-Modified Semiconductor Surfaces

13.4 Proteins at Surfaces

13.5 Covalent Biomolecular Interfaces for Direct Electrical Biosensing

13.6 Nanowire Sensors

13.7 Summary

13.8 Acknowledgments

Chapter 14: Perspective and Challenge

Index

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Functionalization of semiconductor surfaces / edited by Franklin (Feng) Tao, Steven L. Bernasek.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-470-56294-9 (hbk.)

1. Semiconductors–Surfaces. 2. Semiconductors–Materials. I. Tao, Franklin (Feng), 1971- II. Bernasek, S. L. (Steven L.)

QC611.6.S9F86 2012

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ISBN: 9780470562949

Preface

Functionalization of semiconductor surfaces through direct molecule attachment is an important approach to tailoring the chemical, physical, and electronic properties of semiconductor surfaces. Incorporating the functions of organic molecules into semiconductor-based materials and devices can serve various technological applications, as in the development of microelectronic computing, micro- and optoelectronic devices, microelectromechanical machines, three-dimensional memory chips, silicon-based nano- or biological sensors, and nanopatterned organic and biomaterial surfaces. Dry organic reactions in vacuum and wet organic chemistry in solution are two major categories of strategies for functionalization of these surfaces, which is the focus of this book. The growth of molecular multilayer architectures on the formed organic monolayers is described. The immobilization of biomolecules such as DNA on organic layers chemically attached to semiconductor surfaces is also introduced. The patterning of complex structures of organic layers and metallic nanoclusters on surfaces for application in sensing technologies is discussed. This book covers both advances in fundamental science and the latest achievements and applications in this rapidly growing field over the past decade.

Surface analytical techniques are used to characterize the organic functionalized interface. Chapter 2 briefly introduces the main surface analytic techniques used in this field. The functionalization of semiconductor surfaces involves the chemical binding of organic molecules on active sites of the semiconductor surface. The creation of a reactive site comprising one to several atoms is the prerequisite for the functionalization of semiconductor surfaces. Chapter 3 describes the surface structures of semiconductors and the methods used to prepare them for the attachment of organic molecules. Early studies of the chemical attachment of organic molecules on semiconductor surfaces focused on the mechanistic understanding of pericyclic reactions of the simplest unsaturated organic molecules, acetylene and ethylene. Chapter 4 describes these early studies of pericyclic reactions and other small molecules with a single functional group. Later, efforts were made to attach aromatic molecules, as these five- or six-membered aromatic molecules are the building blocks for polymers or other functional materials. Chapter 5 summarizes the chemical binding of small aromatic molecules and the reaction mechanisms for this functionalization.

Selectivity of products in the functionalization of semiconductor surfaces is an important issue, since a homogeneous organic layer on the semiconductor surface is required for high-performance molecular and semiconductor devices. However, most organic materials are actually bifunctional or multifunctional molecules. Understanding the competition and selectivity of different functional groups on the semiconductor surfaces is fundamentally important. Chapter 6 focuses on the influence of functional groups in substituted aromatic molecules on the selection of a reaction channel. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are comprised of multiple fused benzene rings. They are promising materials for the development of new semiconductor devices using organic materials as the active layer. The chemical binding of these large aromatic systems is thus very important for the field of organic electronic devices and nanodevices. Chapter 7 summarizes the covalent binding of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon systems on semiconductor surfaces.

In addition to chemical binding through the formation of strong covalent bonds at the semiconductor–organic interface, organic molecules may transfer electrons to or accept electrons from semiconductor surfaces, resulting in dative bonding. This bonding mode results from the availability of electron-rich and electron-deficient sites on semiconductor surfaces. Chapter 8 describes studies of dative bonding of organic molecules on semiconductor surfaces.

Theoretical simulation has been a very important component in the developing understanding of organic functionalization of semiconductor surfaces. It is widely used to mechanistically understand the binding configuration of organic molecules, particularly multifunctional organic molecules through the point of view of kinetics and thermodynamics. Chapter 9 exemplifies the integration of this theoretical component into fundamental studies of mechanism in the field of functionalization of semiconductor surfaces.

Besides the identification of the structure of surfaces and adsorbates atom by atom in real space, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has another important function in breaking chemical bonds of an adsorbate to create a reactive site or radical that can then act as a precursor for a subsequent new reaction on the elemental semiconductor surface. This is a promising approach to modification and functionalization of semiconductor surfaces at the atomic level. This approach is clearly described in Chapter 10.

In parallel with the early studies of the reaction mechanisms of organic molecules on semiconductor surfaces in vacuum, studies of the functionalization of semiconductor surfaces through solution phase (wet) chemistry have been carried out. The formation of organic layers through solution chemistry is described in Chapter 11. The chemical stability of organic thin films formed in this manner is reviewed in Chapter 12. On the basis of our fundamental understanding of the functionalization of semiconductor surfaces with small organic molecules, the functionalization of semiconductors with larger, biologically relevant molecules has developed recently. Application of these systems in biosensing is developing as a very exciting field. The progress made in this area is reviewed in Chapter 13.

In summary, this book reviews many of the important research areas in the field of functionalization of semiconductor surfaces from the past two decades. These reviews are provided by leading researchers across this exciting field of surface and materials chemistry. We hope that this volume will prove to be useful to active researchers in this field, as well as students and research scientists new to the field of semiconductor surface functionalization.

We thank the contributors to this collection of reviews for the elegant research that makes up the subject of this book. We also thank them for providing the critical reviews and commentaries on the field that comprise the individual chapters here. Finally, we acknowledge the support of the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation that supported the work of our laboratory described here, the Chemistry Department of the National University of Singapore for ongoing support of collaborative work in this area, and the support from Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of University of Notre Dame.

Franklin (Feng) TaoSteven L. Bernasek

Contributors

Damien Aureau, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

Stacey F. Bent, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Steven L. Bernasek, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Ying Wei Cai, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA; Befar Chemical Group Co., Ltd, Binzhou, Shandong, China

Yves J. Chabal, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

Robert J. Hamers, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

Keli Han, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Md. Zakir Hossain, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Graduate School of Engineering, Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan.

Erik Johansson, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Maki Kawai, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako, Saitama, Japan; Department of Advanced Materials Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Do Hwan Kim, Division of Science Education, Daegu University, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea

Sehun Kim, Molecular-Level Interface Research Center, Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Hangil Lee, Department of Chemistry, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Nathan S. Lewis, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Young Hwan Min, Molecular-Level Interface Research Center, Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Leslie E. O'Leary, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Yongquan Qu, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Franklin (Feng) Tao, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

Andrew V. Teplyakov, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

Mark E. Tuckerman, Department of Chemistry and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, USA

Keith T. Wong, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Guo-Qin Xu, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Kian Soon Yong, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore

Yanli Zhang, Department of Chemistry and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, USA

Yuan Zhu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

Chapter 1

Introduction

Franklin (Feng) Tao, Yuan Zhu, and Steven L. Bernasek

1.1 Motivation for a Book on Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces

Microelectronics has grown into the heart of modern industries, driving almost all the technologies of today. Semiconductor materials play ubiquitous and irreplaceable roles in the development of microelectronic computing, micro- and optoelectronic devices, microelectromechanical machines, three-dimensional memory chips, and sensitive silicon-based nano- or biological sensors. Being the most technologically important material, silicon and its surface chemistry have received phenomenal attention in the past two decades. One important motivation for semiconductor surface chemistry is to fine-tune the electronic properties of device surfaces and interfaces for applications in several technologically important areas. Chemical attachment of molecules to the semiconductor surface enables the necessary control over electron transfer through the semiconductor–organic interface. It also allows control of the architecture of the organic overlayer by chemical modification of the functionalized silicon-based templates. It provides a versatile and reproducible way to tailor the electronic properties of semiconductor surfaces in a controllable manner.

Organic molecules are widely used in areas from plastics to semiconductors. Compared to the world of inorganic materials, organic materials exhibit unique chemical and physical properties and biocompatibility. In addition, the availability of an enormous number of organic materials with a large number of different functional groups offers opportunity for tuning physical and chemical properties that is absent for inorganic materials. A few examples are organic semiconducting polymer materials including organic electroluminescent and organic light emitting diodes. The advantage of organic materials has driven the interest in incorporation of functional organic materials, such as size and shape effects, absorption spectrum, flexibility, conductivity, chemical affinity, chirality, and molecular recognition into existing silicon-based devices and technologies. Dry organic reactions in vacuum and wet organic chemistry in solution on 2D templates are the two major approaches for functionalization of these surfaces.

Functionalization of semiconductor surfaces has also been driven by significant technological requirements in several areas, including micro- and nanoscale electromechanical devices and new nanopatterning techniques. By combining molecular surface modification and nanofabrication of semiconductor materials and surfaces, selective functionalization on nanopatches and formation of organic nanostructures become quite important for nanopatterning of organic materials for application in devices. The development of these heterogeneous structures requires mechanistic understanding of organic modification at the nano- and even atomic scale.

These applications in several areas have driven the enormous efforts in functionalization of semiconductor surfaces with organic materials and the subsequent immobilization of biospecies at the surface in the past two decades. Significant achievements have resulted from these efforts. Reaction mechanisms of many organic molecules have been studied at the molecular level. Numerous organic monolayers have been grown. Furthermore, organic multilayer architectures have been developed as well. Incorporation of functional biospecies such as DNA has been demonstrated and prototype biosensor devices have been made. In light of these achievements in the past two decades, a book summarizing this progress and pointing the direction for future work in this area would certainly be useful.

1.2 Surface Science as the Foundation of the Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces

1.2.1 Brief Description of the Development of Surface Science

Historically, surface science has been developed since the spontaneous spreading of oil on water was studied by Benjamin Franklin [1]. From the 1900s to 1950s, surface science studies focused on the properties of chemisorbed monolayers, adsorption isotherms, molecular adsorption and dissociation, and energy exchange [2]. As surface science became important for understanding production processes in industries such as pretreatment, activation, poisoning, and deactivation of catalysts in production, it has become one of the major areas of chemistry and physics.

In the 1950s, surface science experienced an explosive growth driven by the advance of vacuum (UHV) technology and the availability of solid-state device-based electronics with acceptable cost [3]. Thus, many efforts were made in the study of surface structure and chemistry since clean single-crystal surfaces could be prepared in UHV at that time. In the 1960s, the advance of surface analytical techniques resulted in a remarkable development of surface science. Many surface phenomena such as adsorption, bonding, oxidation, and catalysis were studied at the atomic and molecular level.

In the 1980s, the invention of various scanning probe microscopes greatly accelerated the development of surface science [4], giving rise to a second explosive growth of surface science. These probing techniques make it possible to study surfaces and interfaces at the atomic level. Particularly important, these techniques allow scientists to actually visualize surfaces at the atomic level and to identify geometric structure and electronic structure of surfaces at the highest resolution. This breakthrough radically changed the scientists' vision of the properties of materials, from average information at a large scale to local information at the atomic scale. Numerous surface phenomena were reexamined at the atomic level. For example, scanning tunneling microscopy provided an opportunity to visualize atoms on various surfaces of metals and semiconductors [5, 6]. Atomic level information achieved with these techniques significantly aided in the identification of specific sites of catalytic reactions [7, 8]. In addition, the breakthrough in surface analytical techniques expanded the territory of surface science to almost all areas of materials science, physics, chemistry, and mechanical and electronic engineering. More importantly, semiconductor and microelectronic industries have largely benefited from the advancement of surface science [9–13] since all the protocols for the fabrication of semiconductor devices and microelectronic components extensively involve surface science and vacuum technology.

In recent years, the development of biochemistry and biomolecular engineering has given surface science another opportunity [14, 15]. Surface science studies of various bioprocesses and biofunctions performed in nature largely rely on an understanding of the complicated liquid–liquid, liquid–solid, and liquid–gas interfacial phenomena in these biosystems. For example, the functions of some biospecies largely depend on the self-assembly of specific biomolecules at interfaces in nature. The functions and behaviors of some biospecies can be mimicked on a 2D chip toward the development of biosensing technology, which extensively involves interfacial chemistry. The terms “biosurface” and “biointerface” have been widely used to describe these studies.

1.2.2 Importance of Surface Science

The term “surface science” often makes people instantly have a connection to various surface analytical techniques used in their research fields of chemistry, materials science, and physics. It is true that the development of surface science has significantly relied on the invention and advance of new analytical techniques capable of providing different information at surfaces and interfaces [1, 16]. In fact, every aspect of our daily life and work involves surface science. Most of the production processes in chemical industries involve catalytic reactions performed at the interface between solid catalysts at high temperature and gaseous phases under high pressure or liquid reactants with high flow rate. New energy conversion processes extensively involve heterogeneous catalysis such as (1) evolution of H2 and O2 on the surfaces of cocatalysts in solar-driven water splitting [17–22] and (2) generation of electricity from oxidation of fuel molecules on the surface of electrodes (Pt or Pt-based alloy) in fuel cells [23–25]. Most issues in environmental science involve chemical process occurring on the surface of various materials such as minerals under ambient conditions [26–28]. For example, chemical conversion of greenhouse gases to fuel and conversion of toxic emissions are typically heterogeneous processes occurring on specific catalysts [29, 30].

The surface chemistry of semiconductors is essentially the core of the field of functionalization of semiconductor surfaces. This is because all the processes to functionalize the inorganic surface with organic molecules must be performed as interfacial reactions. In fact, the functions and behaviors of organic layers/devices developed on semiconductor surfaces are truly determined by the surface structure and reactive site of the semiconductor, the reactivity and selectivity of the organic molecules, and the binding strength of semiconductor–organic linkages such as Si–X (X = C, O, N, S, . . .). Thus, the fundamental studies of surface science in this field are crucial, which is abundantly demonstrated in the following chapters.

1.2.3 Chemistry at the Interface of Two Phases

Typically, the interactions at two different phases can be categorized into noncovalent weak interactions and covalent binding. Corresponding to this categorization, strategies used in the design of new materials and devices can be categorized as (1) molecular self-assembly through weak noncovalent forces and (2) breaking of chemical bonds and the formation of new ones [10, 31, 32]. The macroscopic self-assembled structure formed on a substrate is typically held together by various weak noncovalent forces between adsorbed molecules within a self-assembled structure and between the adsorbed molecules and template (Fig. 1.1). In this case, the ordered supramolecular systems with new structures and properties form spontaneously from the original components. By using weak noncovalent binding including electrostatic interactions between static molecular charges, hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces, π–π interactions, hydrophilic binding, and charge transfer interactions, many new self-assembled structures with various sizes, shapes, and functions have been produced [10, 31, 32].

Figure 1.1 Schematic of a self-assembled monolayer on solid surfaces.

In contrast to weak interactions in these systems, strong chemical bonding is commonly existent in many interfacial materials such as semiconductor surface materials and devices functionalized with organic molecules [10, 31, 33]. A large number of surface technologies rely on strong chemical binding at interfaces. For example, surface etching, chemisorption, and thin film growth strongly depend on the formation of chemical bonds at interfaces.

Other than the strong chemical binding and weak van der Waals interaction, chemical adsorption of molecules on metal surfaces in heterogeneous catalysis can be considered as the third type of interaction [2, 16, 34]. The strength of this type of interaction is between the weak van der Waals and the strong chemical binding (mostly covalent binding). Such binding with a medium strength is, in fact, necessary for heterogeneous catalysis since (1) binding of reactant molecules with certain strength results in a residence time for reactant molecules on the surface of the catalysts and the attainment of a certain coverage, and may aid in bond breaking in some cases, and (2) a strong binding will decrease molecular mobility on surfaces to some extent, which is necessary in producing intermediates or the final product molecules.

Regarding the functionalization of semiconductor surfaces for the preparation of new semiconductor devices, biosensors, molecular electronic devices, and nanopatterning templates, a strong and highly selective binding of organic molecules or biospecies is actually necessary. In most cases, the binding between the organic molecule and the semiconductor surface is covalent bonding instead of van der Waals forces.

1.2.4 Surface Science at the Nanoscale

Surface science has been studied at nanoscale well before the “nano” term was frequently used. Surface processes are performed at the nanoscale though the size of a surface could be as large as centimeter or more. In fact, the information volume along the surface normal is in the range of nanometers, since interaction at the interface is performed only in the surface region with a thickness of a few atomic layers, which is distinctly different from homogeneous process of organic reactions occurring in solution. In addition, STM has revealed that actually most samples are heterogeneous in lateral dimensions. Typically, a uniform surface feature is identified only at tens of nanometers. Thus, surface processes do occur at the nanoscale though the size of the material is macroscopic. For a crystallite with a size less than 100 nm such as 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D nanomaterials, certainly the surface chemistry on these materials is already at the nanoscale. Overall, studies of chemistry on the surface at the nanoscale are important for understanding chemical and physical properties of solid surfaces. Thus, we term the surface chemistry on nanomaterials or nanoscale domain on the surface of materials with macroscopic size as nanoscale surface science.

For surfaces with different size at the nanoscale, there are size-dependent surface structural features. For example, as schematically shown in Fig. 1.2, fractions of atoms at the edge of the surface increases with a decrease in size of the surface domain. This is also true for atoms at the metal–oxide interface (Fig. 1.3). More importantly, these size-dependent geometric structural factors can induce size-dependent electronic factors, surface chemistry, and functions of surfaces. The increased fraction of atoms on the surface results in large surface free energy. Chemical binding of organic molecules on these atoms at the edge of surface domains with low coordination numbers (Fig. 1.2) could be quite different from those at the center of surface domains. In addition, the packing of atoms on the surface and in surface region of nanomaterials could not follow the crystallographic periodicity of atomic packing of materials with a macroscopic size, which suggests different surface chemistry at the nanoscale in contrast to that on large domains and crystallites. Thus, size matters in surface chemistry of organic molecules on semiconductor surfaces.

Figure 1.2 Fraction of atoms at edge and corner of nanoparticles with different size.

Figure 1.3 The size-dependent metal—oxide, per text interfacial area of catalysts. The atoms at the interface are highlighted in gray and the fractions of the interface atoms are shown at the corner of each model.

1.2.5 Surface Chemistry in the Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces

Chemical attachment of organic molecules to form organic thin films on different substrates is an important strategy for modification of chemical and physical properties of solid surfaces. Organic attachment is one of the main approaches to the functionalization of solid surfaces since the properties and functions of the attached organic layers are generally absent for inorganic substrates. More importantly, this organic modification and functionalization allows surface and interfacial properties to be tailored controllably since a myriad of organic molecules are available and the structure and property of organic materials can be systematically varied.

The surface and interfacial chemistry involved in the properties of semiconductor surfaces modified with organic molecules/biospecies includes surface structure, binding configuration, orientation of molecules, reaction mechanisms of organic molecules on those surfaces, and their connection to the function and behavior of the modified surfaces. Properties such as conductivity, surface polarity, friction, and biocompatibility can be modified and controlled by this functionalization.

Thus, all the aspects of functionalization of semiconductor surfaces indeed start from the fundamental surface chemistry of the semiconductor surface. From the point of view of information volume, it is at the nanoscale. In terms of reaction sites, most of the surfaces offer different reaction sites at the nanoscale. Thus, it is necessary to identify reaction details at the nanoscale. Overall, due to the nature of the heterogeneity of the functionalized surface, the understanding of surface chemistry in functionalization of semiconductor surface at the nanoscale is necessary.

1.3 Organization of this Book

The functionalization of semiconductor surfaces originated with fundamental studies of semiconductor surfaces at the atomic level for the successful development of semiconductor-based devices. This book covers (1) the early fundamental studies of semiconductor surface structure and the origin of surface reactive sites by using various vacuum-based surface analytical techniques, (2) creative and systematic studies of surface reactions of various organic molecules and the mechanistic understanding of reactions at semiconductor–organic interfaces at the atomic level, (3) chemical attachment of organic molecules and the formation of organic monolayers to template multilayer organic architectures on semiconductor surfaces, and (4) further functionalization of semiconductor surfaces by chemical reactions between biocompatible functional groups of organic layers and biospecies.

Characterization of the functionalized semiconductor surfaces at the molecular and atomic scales involves several techniques of spectroscopy and microscopy. The major surface science techniques will be briefly introduced in Chapter 2. Substrates used in these functionalization are typically Si(100), Si(111)-(7 × 7), Ge(100), and diamond(100) in the route of dry functionalization. Functionalization through wet chemistry uses hydrogenated or halogenated semiconductor surfaces (Si–H, Ge–H, Si–X, or Ge–X). Surface structure of these substrates and the origin of their reactive sites will be reviewed in Chapter 3.

The functionalization of semiconductor surfaces through dry chemistry and wet chemistry is the process that occurs at the organic molecule–semiconductor interface. Most of the chemical binding involved in these processes is strong covalent binding with a strength of 20–50 kcal/mol. The reaction mechanisms in the functionalization of these semiconductor surfaces are quite diverse because of the availability of reactive sites with different geometric and electronic structures and thus different reactivity toward organic molecules and definitely numerous organic materials with different functionalities. Significant efforts have been made in the understanding of these reaction mechanisms at the organic–silicon interface. Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 will review the main studies in terms of reaction mechanisms and summarize reaction mechanisms involved in most of the functionalization of semiconductor surfaces through dry chemistry. Chapter 9 reviews extensive theoretical studies of the mechanisms of organic functionalization of semiconductor surfaces. Focusing on the reaction of conjugated dienes on the semiconductor surface, insights into the reaction mechanisms and dynamics are provided.

As briefly introduced in Section 1.2.5, surface reactions are essentially performed at the nanoscale. The reaction at interfaces occurs on specific surface sites at the nanoscale. Characterization of these sites is an important component in mechanistic studies of reactions leading to the functionalization of semiconductor surfaces. One of the most important techniques to explore nanoscale surface chemistry is STM. Other than the basic function of imaging surface structure at the atomic level, STM has been used to create surface sites and further induce surface reaction of organic molecules for functionalization of semiconductor surfaces and formation of nanopatterns of organic molecules. In fact, tip-induced organic reaction can be considered as a separate strategy for functionalization of semiconductor surfaces. Chapter 10 will describe the function of STM in nanoscale surface chemistry toward functionalization of semiconductor surfaces.

Organic reactions on semiconductor surfaces performed in solution (wet chemistry) provide another important strategy for functionalization of semiconductor surfaces. These protocols and reaction mechanisms will be reviewed in Chapters 11 and 12.

Chapter 13 will summarize the applications of semiconductor surface tethered with organic molecules to the development of biosensing techniques. For example, growth of a multilayer thin film with a tunable thickness will possibly provide a flexible modification for the electronic properties of semiconductor-based devices, including electron transfer efficiency. In addition, multilayer architecture with outward facing functional groups, acting as a tether for a biospecies, is extremely important for designing biosensors. A change in physical properties such as tunneling current or fluorescence can be used to monitor the specific bioresponse. By identifying the change in physical signal induced by the binding of biospecies on the organic functionalized semiconductor surfaces, new diagnostic methods and biomedical sensing technologies can be developed.

The last chapter provides a perspective for the field of functionalization of semiconductor surfaces in the near future. It is possible to study the evolution of the surface chemistry of functionalized surfaces under reactive conditions such as in O2 and humid environment at relatively high temperatures since in situ techniques such as ambient pressure XPS are available. Further research into the reaction mechanisms of immobilization of organic multilayer architectures and biospecies will be carried out. In addition, the incorporation of metal or semiconductor nanoparticles through organic reactions between the tethered functional groups of semiconductor surfaces and the end group of capping agents of nanoparticles is likely since such immobilization can bring unique physical and chemical properties into the field of functionalization of semiconductor surfaces.

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Chapter 2

Surface Analytical Techniques

Ying Wei Cai and Steven L. Bernasek

2.1 Introduction

A number of different surface analytical methods are used in the research described in this book. These methods provide structural, compositional, and molecular identity and reactivity information about the semiconductor surface before, during, and after functionalization. This chapter briefly summarizes the most commonly used of these techniques, providing a description of the operation of the method and an indication of the sort of information provided by the technique. There are a number of review papers and monographs 1 that describe these analytical tools in much more detail. This chapter is not meant to replace these references, but to provide a close at hand introduction to the techniques for researchers interested in the functionalization of semiconductor surfaces.

Compared to wet methods conducted in ambient environments, the dry methods for semiconductor surface modification and functionalization are performed in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) that accommodates a wide spectrum of surface analytical techniques. With these techniques and under UHV conditions, the surface reaction process can be well controlled and characterized to study and explore the fundamentals of “in situ” modification and functionalization of semiconductor surfaces.

The development of UHV systems that can attain pressures from 10−7 to 10−11 Torr not only enables the preparation and maintenance of a clean surface for a reasonable period of time but also makes more accurate and surface-sensitive analytical techniques feasible. With the reduction of pressure, gas molecules behave independently and collide only with the chamber wall, as the mean free path of the molecules increases to a magnitude that is thousands of times larger than the dimension of the UHV chamber. Also, when the density of gas molecules is as low as 3 × 1012 m−3 at 10−10 Torr, the rate of collision of gas molecules on the surface drops to about 1010 cm−2 s−1, keeping the sample surface uncontaminated for several hours. In addition, under this condition, ions, electrons, and photons can also travel freely without interaction with residual gas molecules, which is a critical condition for surface analytical techniques using these probes.

To achieve and maintain the UHV condition, a variety of pumping, sealing, and measuring technologies have been developed and implemented 2. Vacuum pumps with different mechanisms work in different pressure ranges. Starting from atmospheric pressure, rotary mechanical pumps, sorption pumps, or turbomolecular pumps can attain pressure as low as 10, 10, or 10 Torr, respectively. Once the pressure is reduced to about 10 Torr, gas desorption, especially water vapor desorption, from the stainless steel chamber wall contributes significantly to the background pressure. At this stage, the chamber is baked at 150°C or higher to accelerate the desorption and pump away the gas. After cooling down, the background pressure can drop to about 10 Torr if pumped by turbomolecular pump, diffusion pump, or ion sputtering pump. The pressure is accurately measured by thermocouple gauge or ionization gauge for their respective pressure ranges. Thanks to the development of durable and high-temperature-tolerant sealing materials with extremely low vapor pressure, the UHV chamber can be baked and tightly sealed while the sample is transported, manipulated, and processed.