Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the invention provides a method for measuring the intrinsic deposition rate of a precursor in a CVD/CVI process, wherein the measured intrinsic deposition rate is independent of a gas phase intermediate product and represents the deposition rate of a source gas.
The invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:
a method of measuring intrinsic deposition rate of pyrolytic carbon precursor in a CVD/CVI process comprising the steps of:
1) preparation of a deposition substrate: a plurality of cylindrical porous ceramic plates, No. 1, 2, 3, 4, … …, were prepared and weighed to obtain the mass M11,M12,M13,M14,… …;
2) Assembling a mold: vertically placing the cylindrical porous ceramic plates into a graphite mold in sequence, and assembling the mold;
3) CVD/CVI deposition: placing the mold into a constant temperature area in a deposition furnace, introducing inert gas as protective gas, heating, controlling to a specified pressure by a vacuum pump after reaching a specified temperature, controlling the retention time of the source gas in the isothermal area, and performing CVD/CVI deposition;
4) weighing a deposition substrate: after deposition is finished, introducing inert gas to enable the pressure in the deposition furnace to be recovered to normal pressure, stopping introducing the inert gas after the temperature is cooled to room temperature, taking out the die from the deposition furnace, and weighing to obtain the mass M of the plurality of cylindrical porous ceramic plates in the die21,M22,M23,M24,… …;
5) Calculating the deposition rate: calculating the deposition rate of the source gas at each numbering position according to the measured mass difference of the plurality of cylindrical porous ceramic plates;
6) and (3) drawing an on-way deposition rate curve: sequencing the numbered porous ceramic plates from near to far according to the distance from the gas inlet of the isothermal zone, and drawing a graph of the in-process deposition rate by taking the distance from the gas inlet as an abscissa and the deposition rate as an ordinate;
7) calculating the intrinsic deposition rate: reversely extending the on-way deposition rate curve to a position with a distance of 0 from the gas inlet of the isothermal zone, wherein the obtained deposition rate is the intrinsic deposition rate of the source gas under the current process condition; the air inlet of the graphite mold is a conical hole, and the lower end of the conical hole is communicated with a cylindrical hole through an air passage; the diameter of the cylindrical hole is larger than that of the gas channel, and the diameter of the gas channel is equal to that of the inlet face of the conical hole.
The method for measuring the intrinsic deposition rate of the precursor of the CVD/CVI process has the specified temperature lower than 1200 ℃.
The method for measuring the intrinsic deposition rate of the precursor of the CVD/CVI process has the specified pressure less than 10 kPa.
According to the method for measuring the intrinsic deposition rate of the pyrolytic carbon precursor in the CVD/CVI process, the source gas is a micromolecular hydrocarbon gas or other micromolecular gas-phase precursors.
Advantageous effects
The deposition rate of the invention is determined by the quality difference of the porous ceramic plate before and after the experiment, and the cost is low. The intrinsic deposition rate of the precursor can be obtained through simple data processing, and the method is convenient to operate, fast and efficient.
Detailed Description
The embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to specific embodiments, and other advantages and effects of the present invention will be easily understood by those skilled in the art from the disclosure of the present specification.
As shown in FIG. 1, the method for measuring the intrinsic deposition rate of the precursor of the CVD/CVI process comprises the following steps:
1) preparation of a deposition substrate: a plurality of cylindrical porous ceramic plates (shown in FIG. 2), numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, … …, were prepared and weighed to obtain masses M11,M12,M13,M14,… …;
2) Assembling a mold: vertically arranging a plurality of cylindrical porous ceramic plates into a graphite mold in sequence, and assembling the mold;
3) CVD/CVI deposition: filling the mold into a constant temperature area in a deposition furnace, introducing inert gas (nitrogen or argon or helium) as protective gas, heating to reach an appointed isothermal temperature lower than 1200 ℃, controlling to an appointed pressure lower than 10kPa by a vacuum pump, and introducing micromolecular hydrocarbon gas or other micromolecular gas phase precursors to carry out CVD/CVI deposition;
4) weighing a deposition substrate: after deposition is finished, introducing inert gas to enable the pressure in the deposition furnace to be recovered to normal pressure, stopping introducing the inert gas after the temperature is cooled to room temperature, taking out the die from the deposition furnace, and weighing to obtain the mass M of the plurality of cylindrical porous ceramic plates in the die21,M22,M23,M24,… …;
5) Calculating the deposition rate: calculating the deposition rate of the micromolecular hydrocarbon gas or other micromolecular gas-phase precursors at each numbering position according to the measured mass difference of the plurality of cylindrical porous ceramic plates;
6) and (3) drawing an on-way deposition rate curve: sequencing the numbered porous ceramic plates from near to far according to the distance from the air inlet, and drawing a graph of the in-process deposition rate by taking the distance from the air inlet as an abscissa and the deposition rate as an ordinate;
7) calculating the intrinsic deposition rate: the on-the-way deposition rate curve was reverse-extended to a distance of 0 from the gas inlet where the resulting deposition rate was the intrinsic deposition rate of the source gas under the current process conditions.
As shown in fig. 3-1 and 3-2, the gas inlet of the graphite mold is a tapered hole a, and the lower end of the tapered hole a is communicated with a cylindrical hole C through a gas passage; the diameter of the cylindrical hole is larger than that of the gas channel B, and the diameter of the gas channel B is equal to that of the inlet face of the conical hole A.
Example 1
A method of measuring intrinsic deposition rate of pyrolytic carbon precursor in a CVD/CVI process comprising the steps of:
1) preparation of a deposition substrate: preparing 7 cylindrical porous ceramic plates with numbers of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, and weighing to obtain masses of 2.6288 g, 2.5583 g, 2.5301 g, 2.5613 g, 2.5823 g, 2.5672 g and 2.5980 g;
2) assembling a mold: vertically arranging 7 porous ceramic plates into a graphite mold in sequence, and assembling the mold;
3) CVD/CVI deposition: loading the mold into a constant temperature area in a deposition furnace, introducing nitrogen as protective gas, heating to 950 ℃, controlling the pressure to 5 kPa by using a vacuum pump, and introducing propylene for CVD/CVI deposition;
4) weighing a deposition substrate: after deposition is finished, introducing nitrogen to restore the pressure in the deposition furnace to normal pressure, stopping introducing nitrogen after the temperature is cooled to room temperature, taking out the mold from the deposition furnace, and weighing to obtain the mass of the porous ceramic wafer in the mold, such as 2.6506 g, 2.5829 g, 2.5574 g, 2.5895 g, 2.6114 g, 2.5966 g and 2.6290 g;
5) calculating the deposition rate: calculating the deposition rate of propylene at each numbering position according to the measured mass difference of the porous ceramic sheet of 0.0218 g, 0.0246 g, 0.0273 g, 0.0282 g, 0.0291 g, 0.0294 g and 0.031 g;
6) and (3) drawing an on-way deposition rate curve: sequencing the numbered porous ceramic plates from near to far according to the distance from the air inlet, and drawing a graph (shown in figure 4) of the deposition rate along the way by taking the distance from the air inlet as a horizontal coordinate and the deposition rate as a vertical coordinate;
7) calculating the intrinsic deposition rate: and (3) reversely extending the on-way deposition rate curve to a position with the distance of 0 from the air inlet of the isothermal zone, wherein the obtained deposition rate is the intrinsic deposition rate of the propylene under the current process condition.
The distance from the gas inlet may be replaced by residence time, and plotting the in-line deposition rate may be replaced by plotting the deposition rate as a function of residence time, and back-extending the plot to 0 s may also give an intrinsic deposition rate as a function of residence time.
Example 2
A method of measuring intrinsic deposition rate of pyrolytic carbon precursor in a CVD/CVI process comprising the steps of:
1) preparation of a deposition substrate: preparing 1 cylindrical porous ceramic plate, and weighing to obtain 2.9867 g of mass;
2) assembling a mold: putting the ceramic wafer into a graphite mold, and assembling the mold;
3) CVD/CVI deposition: loading the mold into a constant temperature region in a deposition furnace, controlling the retention time to be 0.125 s, introducing nitrogen as protective gas, heating to 975 ℃, controlling the pressure to be 5 kPa by using a vacuum pump, and introducing propylene for CVD/CVI deposition;
4) weighing a deposition substrate: after deposition is finished, introducing nitrogen to restore the pressure in the deposition furnace to normal pressure, stopping introducing the nitrogen after the temperature is cooled to room temperature, taking out the mold from the deposition furnace, and weighing to obtain 3.0195 g of porous ceramic plates in the mold;
5) repeat steps 1-4 a total of 6 times. Replacing the porous ceramic plate in thestep 1 each time, weighing to obtain the mass (2.8967 g, 3.0096 g, 2.9575 g, 2.9092 g, 2.8936 g and 2.9374 g), correspondingly changing the residence time (0.25 s, 0.375 s, 0.5 s, 0.625 s, 0.75 s and 0.875 s) in thestep 3 one by one, and obtaining the mass (2.9305 g, 3.0458 g, 2.9946 g, 2.9474 g, 2.9333 g and 2.9791 g) of the deposited porous ceramic plate in thestep 4
6) Calculating the deposition rate: according to the measured mass difference (0.0328 g, 0.0338 g, 0.0362 g, 0.0371 g, 0.0382 g, 0.0397 g and 0.0417 g) of the porous ceramic sheet, calculating the deposition rate of propylene at each residence time;
7) the deposition rate was plotted as a function of residence time: with the residence time as abscissa and the deposition rate as ordinate, a graph of the deposition rate as a function of the residence time is plotted, as shown in fig. 5;
8) calculating the intrinsic deposition rate: the deposition rate profile was reverse-extended to a residence time of 0 seconds, where the resulting deposition rate was the intrinsic deposition rate of propylene under the current process conditions.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents and improvements made within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.