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Analyses conditions of oxide formation on silicon in a microwave plasma. Experimentally it is shown that oxide films can be created only in a plasma where the floating potential is close to zero or positive with respect to the grounded support of the Si sample.
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Musil et al. (1979) studied this question.
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