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Understanding ion and atom fluxes during high-power impulse magnetron sputtering deposition of NbCx films from a compound target

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23520%2F23%3A43969596" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23520/23:43969596 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0002944" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0002944</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/6.0002944" target="_blank" >10.1116/6.0002944</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Understanding ion and atom fluxes during high-power impulse magnetron sputtering deposition of NbCx films from a compound target

  • Original language description

    A combination of time-averaged mass spectroscopy (MS), time-averaged optical emission spectroscopy (OES), and plasma transport modeling was employed to understand the transport processes of ions and atoms in high-power impulse magnetron sputtering discharges resulting in changes in the stoichiometry of NbC films during their deposition from a stoichiometric NbC compound target at different repetition frequencies and duty cycles. Mass spectrometry showed that the fluxes of ions originating from the elements of the target increase with increasing pulse power density due to an increasing electron density and, thus, electron-impact ionization probability. Due to the higher ionization energy and much lower ionization cross section of C (compared to Nb), it was found that the contribution of C ions to the deposition flux is practically negligible. Additionally, OES tracked the densities of ions and atoms at different distances from the target. The OES analysis revealed that the atom densities decreased as the pulse power density increased. In contrast, the ion densities exhibited an increase, which is consistent with the findings of MS. Using the data from MS, OES, and modeling, we were able to estimate the fluxes of atoms to the substrate. Our observations demonstrated a transition from C-rich toward Nb-rich flux of film-forming species with increasing pulse power density, corresponding to changes in the film composition. We further discuss the role of internal plasma processes that are responsible for this transition.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A

  • ISSN

    0734-2101

  • e-ISSN

    1520-8559

  • Volume of the periodical

    41

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    6

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    15

  • Pages from-to

    1-15

  • UT code for WoS article

    001094046900001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85175522607