Abstract

Normal incidence ellipsometry has been used to measure the change in the complex anisotropic reflectance ratio ∼γ upon oxidation of the clean Si(110)16 × 2 surface. The spectroscopic change in the amplitude of ∼γ (tan(Ψ)) shows a broad maximum of height 1.4 × 10 −3 in the high energy region above 2.5 eV. No phase shift difference for the reflectance coefficients belonging to the surface principal optical axes has been measured. A Kramers-Kronig transformation of the amplitude ratio showed that a change in the phase is not expected. The change in tan(Ψ) indicates that the change in reflection upon oxidation in the optical region ismainly in the (1̄10) direction.

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