Studies of Crystalunity for Sputter Deposited Bi-Based Oxide Films

1992 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichi Mizuno ◽  
Yo Ichikawa ◽  
Kentaro Setsune

ABSTRACTCrystalline quality of Bi-based oxide films has been evaluated by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and ion-channeling on the Rutherford backscattering (RBS). The films were sputter deposited 2201-phase Bi2Sr2Cu1O8-δ (BSCO) and 2212-phase Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2O8-δ (BSCCO). They were prepared on MgO(100) and SrTiO3(100) substrates at the low temperature of 650°C during the deposition. The best quality, however thin films had poor crystallinity compared to single crystals, was obtained with the 2201-phase BSCO film that was deposited on a SrTiO3(100) substrate. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) value of the rocking curve on XRD for the film was estimated as 1560 (arc sec).

2018 ◽  
Vol 941 ◽  
pp. 2093-2098
Author(s):  
Naho Itagaki ◽  
Kazuto Takeuchi ◽  
Nanoka Miyahara ◽  
Kouki Imoto ◽  
Hyun Woong Seo ◽  
...  

We studied effects of sputtering pressure on growth of (ZnO)x(InN)1-xcrystal films deposited at 450°C by rf magnetron sputtering. Epitaxial growth of (ZnO)x(InN)1-xfilms was realized on single-crystalline ZnO template. X-ray diffraction measurements show that full width at half maximum of the rocking curves from the (101) plane of the films reaches minimum value of 0.11º at 0.5 Pa. The sputtering gas pressure is a key tuning knob for controlling the crystal quality of ZION films.


2002 ◽  
Vol 721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Vaudin ◽  
Glen R. Fox ◽  
Glen R. Kowach

AbstractRocking curve texture measurements were made on thin films of zinc oxide (ZnO) and platinum (Pt) using a powder x-ray diffractometer, and, in the case of ZnO, an area detector. The intensity corrections for defocussing and other geometric factors were made using a technique and associated software (Texture Plus*) developed at NIST. In both thin film systems, the texture was axisymmetric (fiber) and sharp, with full width at half maximum values of about 2.5°. Care was taken in the Pt case to ensure that the linear range of the x-ray detector was used to measure the intensities; for the ZnO data the degree of detector non-linearity was determined, and corrections were applied where necessary. The suitability of the Pt films for thin film texture standards was studied.


1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1297-1305 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Theis ◽  
D. G. Schlom

Epitaxial PbTiO3 films have been grown on vicinal (001) SrTiO3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition. Vicinal SrTiO3 substrates with misorientations up to 9° from (001) were used, and the influence of the direction of misorientation on the resulting domain structure was studied. 4-circle x-ray diffraction analysis indicates that thin (40 nm) PbTiO3 films are completely c-axis oriented [rocking curve full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) of 0.25° for the 002 reflection] and that thicker films (∼ 200 nm) contain mixed a-axis and c-axis PbTiO3 domains due to twinning along {011} planes. The [100] axis of the a-axis domains is misoriented by 2.1° to 3.3° toward 〈100〉 substrate directions with respect to the substrate normal. In contrast to growth on well-oriented (001) SrTiO3 surfaces where the four equivalent tilts of the [100] axis of the a-axis domains are equally likely, on vicinal SrTiO3 the a-axis domains are preferentially oriented in an uphill direction with respect to the crystallographic miscut.


Author(s):  
В.Н. Бессолов ◽  
М.Е. Компан ◽  
Е.В. Коненкова ◽  
В.Н. Пантелеев

A new approach is proposed to the synthesis of a semipolar AlN on a Si(100) substrate at the surface for which the angle between the inclined plane of the nanogrooves and Si(100) is 47°. It is shown that the hydride vapor-phase epitaxy on a such nano-patterned substrate enables formation of a semipolar layer AlN (1012) characterized by the full width at half maximum value as low as ωθ ~60 arcmin for the x-ray diffraction rocking curve. It is found that the Raman spectra of the semipolar AlN(10-12) layer contain additional peaks on the Raman curves associated with phonons A1(TO) and E1(TO), in contrast to the polar AlN(0001) layer, where the peak A1(LO) is additionally manifested.


1998 ◽  
Vol 541 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chattopadhyay ◽  
A. Teren ◽  
B.W. Wessels

AbstractThe microstrain in epitaxial BaTiO3 thin films has been investigated using x-ray diffraction. The full width half maximum of the (001) diffraction peaks ranged from 0.12 to 0.49 deg. From the analysis of the angular dependence of the diffraction peak broadening, it is concluded that the broadening is due predominantly to strain. The magnitude of the microstrain decreases sharply with increasing film thickness.


Author(s):  
F. Ma ◽  
S. Vivekanand ◽  
K. Barmak ◽  
C. Michaelsen

Solid state reactions in sputter-deposited Nb/Al multilayer thin films have been studied by transmission and analytical electron microscopy (TEM/AEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The Nb/Al multilayer thin films for TEM studies were sputter-deposited on (1102)sapphire substrates. The periodicity of the films is in the range 10-500 nm. The overall composition of the films are 1/3, 2/1, and 3/1 Nb/Al, corresponding to the stoichiometric composition of the three intermetallic phases in this system.Figure 1 is a TEM micrograph of an as-deposited film with periodicity A = dA1 + dNb = 72 nm, where d's are layer thicknesses. The polycrystalline nature of the Al and Nb layers with their columnar grain structure is evident in the figure. Both Nb and Al layers exhibit crystallographic texture, with the electron diffraction pattern for this film showing stronger diffraction spots in the direction normal to the multilayer. The X-ray diffraction patterns of all films are dominated by the Al(l 11) and Nb(l 10) peaks and show a merging of these two peaks with decreasing periodicity.


2010 ◽  
Vol 123-125 ◽  
pp. 375-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram Prakash ◽  
Shalendra Kumar ◽  
Chan Gyu Lee ◽  
S.K. Sharma ◽  
Marcelo Knobel ◽  
...  

Ce1-xFexO2 (x=0, 0.01, 0.03 and 0.0 5) thin films were grown by pulsed laser deposition technique on Si and LaAlO3 (LAO) substrates. These films were deposited in vacuum and 200 mTorr oxygen partial pressure for both the substrates. These films were characterized by x-ray diffraction XRD and Raman spectroscopy measurements. XRD results reveal that these films are single phase. Raman results show F2g mode at ~466 cm-1 and defect peak at 489 cm-1 for film that deposited on LAO substrates, full width at half maximum (FWHM) is increasing with Fe doping for films deposited on both the substrates.


2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 795
Author(s):  
Р.В. Селюков ◽  
В.В. Наумов

Textured Pt films with thickness h=20-80 nm were sputter deposited on oxidized c-Si (100) wafers and annealed in vacuum at 500°C/60 min. The thickness dependencies of the crystalline texture parameters and of the fraction of crystalline phase δ are obtained for as-deposited and annealed films using X-ray diffraction. The determination of δ in textured films is carried out by the new method based on rocking curve analysis. It is found that annealing leads to the texture improvement and to the increasing of δ for all h. The less h, the stronger effects of texture improvement and of δ increasing. These results are explained by the annealing-induced formation of large secondary grains whose volume fraction increases as h decreases. The inhomogeneity of the depth distributions of texture parameters and of δ are investigated for the as-deposited Pt films.


2005 ◽  
Vol 891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-ichiro Uekusa ◽  
Kunitoshi Aoki ◽  
Mohammad Zakir Hossain ◽  
Tomohiro Fukuda ◽  
Noboru Miura

ABSTRACTWe prepared β-FeSi2 thin-films by using a Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) method and succeeded to observe photoluminescence (PL) around 1.5 μm corresponding to β-FeSi2 band from the long-time and high-temperature annealed β-FeSi2 thin-films. The β-FeSi2 thin-films were ablated on Si(111) substrates heated at 550°C. After ablation, long-time and high-temperature thermal annealing was performed in order to improve the crystal-quality. Annealing times were 5, 10, 20 and 40 hrs, and annealing temperature was kept at 900 °C. Crystallinity was evaluated by an X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurement. We have observed eminent improvement on crystal-quality of β-FeSi2 thin-films. Annealed samples show (220) or (202) X-ray diffraction signals of β-FeSi2 and the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of these peaks were 0.27° although the thickness of the samples decreased with annealing time. Thermal-diffusion of Si atoms was observed from substrate to thin-films. Fe atoms in the ablated thin-films also diffused into the substrate. The relationship between the thickness of β-FeSi2 thin-films and the thermal-diffusion were investigated with rutherford backscattering (RBS) measurement. Maximum photoluminescence intensity around 1.5 μm was observed from the thickest β-FeSi2 thin-film with only 5 hrs annealing.


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