scholarly journals Grass-like Alumina with Low Refractive Index for Scalable, Broadband, Omnidirectional Antireflection Coatings on Glass Using Atomic Layer Deposition

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 15038-15043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoffer Kauppinen ◽  
Kirill Isakov ◽  
Markku Sopanen
2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (24) ◽  
pp. 16285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangho S. Kim ◽  
Nicholas T. Gabriel ◽  
Woo-Bin Song ◽  
Joseph J. Talghader

Coatings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pallabi Paul ◽  
Kristin Pfeiffer ◽  
Adriana Szeghalmi

Antireflection coatings (ARC) are essential for various optical components including such made of plastics for high volume applications. However, precision coatings on plastics are rather challenging due to typically low adhesion of the coating to the substrate. In this work, optimization of the atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes towards conformal optical thin films of Al2O3, TiO2 and SiO2 on poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) has been carried out and a five-layer ARC is demonstrated. While the uncoated PMMA substrates have a reflectance of nearly 8% in the visible (VIS) spectral range, this is reduced below 1.2% for the spectral range of 420–670 nm by applying a double-side ARC. The total average reflectance is 0.7%. The optimized ALD coatings show a good adhesion to the PMMA substrates even after the climate test. Microscopic analysis on the cross-hatch areas on PMMA after the climate test indicates very good environmental stability of the ALD coatings. These results enable a possible route by ALD to deposit uniform, crack free, adhesive and environmentally durable thin film layers on sensitive thermoplastics like PMMA.


2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 01A111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Van Bui ◽  
Frank B. Wiggers ◽  
Anubha Gupta ◽  
Minh D. Nguyen ◽  
Antonius A. I. Aarnink ◽  
...  

Coatings ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Pfeiffer ◽  
Ulrike Schulz ◽  
Andreas Tünnermann ◽  
Adriana Szeghalmi

2017 ◽  
Vol 691 ◽  
pp. 308-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. López ◽  
E. Solorio ◽  
H.A. Borbón-Nuñez ◽  
F.F. Castillón ◽  
R. Machorro ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhichao Liu ◽  
Songlin Chen ◽  
Ping Ma ◽  
Yaowei Wei ◽  
Yi Zheng ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 732-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Haeberle ◽  
Karsten Henkel ◽  
Hassan Gargouri ◽  
Franziska Naumann ◽  
Bernd Gruska ◽  
...  

We report on results on the preparation of thin (<100 nm) aluminum oxide (Al2O3) films on silicon substrates using thermal atomic layer deposition (T-ALD) and plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PE-ALD) in the SENTECH SI ALD LL system. The T-ALD Al2O3 layers were deposited at 200 °C, for the PE-ALD films we varied the substrate temperature range between room temperature (rt) and 200 °C. We show data from spectroscopic ellipsometry (thickness, refractive index, growth rate) over 4” wafers and correlate them to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) results. The 200 °C T-ALD and PE-ALD processes yield films with similar refractive indices and with oxygen to aluminum elemental ratios very close to the stoichiometric value of 1.5. However, in both also fragments of the precursor are integrated into the film. The PE-ALD films show an increased growth rate and lower carbon contaminations. Reducing the deposition temperature down to rt leads to a higher content of carbon and CH-species. We also find a decrease of the refractive index and of the oxygen to aluminum elemental ratio as well as an increase of the growth rate whereas the homogeneity of the film growth is not influenced significantly. Initial state energy shifts in all PE-ALD samples are observed which we attribute to a net negative charge within the films.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
April D. Jewell ◽  
John Hennessy ◽  
Michael E. Hoenk ◽  
Shouleh Nikzad

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