Thin (3-300 nm) oxides were grown on single crystal silicon substrates at temperatures from 523 K to 673 K in a low pressure electron cyclotron resonance oxygen plasma. Oxides were grown under floating, anodic or cathodic bias conditions, although only the oxides grown under floating or anodic bias conditions are acceptable for use as gate dielectrics in metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) technology. Oxide thickness uniformity as measured by ellipsometry decreased with increasing oxidation time for all bias conditions. Oxidation kinetics under anodic conditions can be explained by negatively charged atomic oxygen, O", transport limited growth. Constant current anodizations yielded three regions ofgrowth: 1) a concentration gradient dominated regime for oxides thinner than 10 nm; 2) a field dominated regime with ohmic charged oxidant transport for oxide thickness inthe range of10 nm to approximately 100 nm; and 3)a space-charge limited regime for films thicker than approximately 100 nm. The relationship between oxide thickness (x^), overall potential drop (Vâ nd ion current (jj) in the space-charge limited transport region was of the form: yx a V^/ x^.