Jr. Dahn et al., X-RAY-DIFFRACTION AND X-RAY-ABSORPTION STUDIES OF POROUS SILICON, SILOXENE, HEAT-TREATED SILOXENE, AND LAYERED POLYSILANE, Journal of applied physics, 75(4), 1994, pp. 1946-1951
Several porous silicon, siloxene (Si6H6O3), heat-treated siloxene, and
layered polysilane (Si6H6) samples have been studied with K- and L-ed
ge x-ray photoabsorption, photoemission, and powder x-ray diffraction.
The x-ray absorption of layered polysilane and porous-Si are found to
be remarkably similar. In particular, the K absorption edges of these
samples shift by about 0.4-0.6 eV to higher energy relative to crysta
lline silicon. Siloxene samples heated to 400-degrees-C in inert gas a
re best described as a mixture of SiO2 and amorphous-Si. When heat-tre
ated siloxene is studied by photoelectron spectroscopy (surface sensit
ive) it resembles SiO2, when it is studied by x-ray absorption (bulk a
nd surface) features from both SiO2 and amorphous-Si are observed and
when it is studied by x-ray diffraction (bulk measurement) it resemble
s amorphous-Si. The SiO2 is therefore predominantly at the surface and
heat-treated siloxene is very small amorphous-Si particles coated wit
h SiO2. The Si L edge of heat-treated siloxene is not shifted signific
antly with respect to crystalline Si, unlike that of porous-Si, as-pre
pared siloxene, or layered polysilane. Taken together, these results s
uggest that heat-treated siloxene does not resemble electrochemically
prepared porous-Si but that it might resemble rapid thermal annealed p
orous-Si. On the other hand, we believe that layered polysilane and un
heated porous-Si may be related.