Structural and optical characterization of titanium nitride thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering
Violeta Valentina MERIE, Andreia MOLEA, Vlad Nicolae BURNETE, Bogdan Viorel NEAMȚU, Gavril NEGREA
download PDFAbstract. Titanium nitride applicability covers different industries such as microelectronics, biomedicine and so on. This paper presents the analysis of the structural and optical properties of titanium nitride thin films for different deposition conditions. The samples were deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering on silicon substrates. The deposition was done at room temperature, on substrates preheated at 300 °C or on substrates that were polarized at -40 V and -90 V respectively. The results indicate a dependency of the structural orientation with respect to the deposition process when this takes place at room temperature. When the deposition was done on a preheated substrate there was no structural orientation. A negative polarization of the substrate leads to the formation of small sized crystallites. Regarding the optical properties, the films showed good semiconductor properties and a low reflectivity.
Keywords
Titanium nitride, Thin films, Magnetron sputtering, Reflectivity, Polarized, Semiconductor
Published online 11/5/2018, 9 pages
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Citation: Violeta Valentina MERIE, Andreia MOLEA, Vlad Nicolae BURNETE, Bogdan Viorel NEAMȚU, Gavril NEGREA, ‘Structural and optical characterization of titanium nitride thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering’, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 8, pp 134-142, 2018
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291999-15
The article was published as article 15 of the book Powder Metallurgy and Advanced Materials
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