
An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of the target surface composition after reactive magnetron sputtering
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- Roeland Schelfhout (UGent) , Koen Strijckmans (UGent) and Diederik Depla (UGent)
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- The target surface stoichiometry after reactive DC magnetron sputtering has been studied by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS). The target was transferred in-vacuo from the deposition chamber to the XPS analysis chamber to avoid any influence by ambient exposure. The study was performed on an aluminum and a tantalum target, both reactively sputtered in different mixtures of oxygen and argon. XPS analysis showed that for the aluminum target only stoichiometric aluminum oxide (Al2O3) is formed but for the tantalum target different suboxides (Ta2O, TaO, Ta2O3, TaO2 and Ta2O3) are present. The formation of a stoichiometric or substoichiometric oxide on the target surface is related to the observed respectively decreasing or increasing discharge voltage behavior upon oxygen addition. This change in discharge voltage behavior is generally linked to a change in electron emission from the target. The material dependency of both the potential and kinetic electron emission mechanisms results in disparate electron yield values between oxides and suboxides residing on the target surface.
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- Reactive sputtering, In-vacuo target transfer, XFS, Aluminum, Tantalum, OPTICAL-EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY, SECONDARY-ELECTRON EMISSION, MEAN FREE PATHS, DISCHARGE VOLTAGE, ION-BOMBARDMENT, OXIDES, FILMS, HYSTERESIS, DEPOSITION, REDUCTION
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8573423
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- Schelfhout, Roeland, et al. “An X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of the Target Surface Composition after Reactive Magnetron Sputtering.” SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY, vol. 353, 2018, pp. 231–36, doi:10.1016/j.surfcoat.2018.09.002.
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- Schelfhout, R., Strijckmans, K., & Depla, D. (2018). An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of the target surface composition after reactive magnetron sputtering. SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY, 353, 231–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2018.09.002
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- Schelfhout, Roeland, Koen Strijckmans, and Diederik Depla. 2018. “An X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of the Target Surface Composition after Reactive Magnetron Sputtering.” SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY 353: 231–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2018.09.002.
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- Schelfhout, Roeland, Koen Strijckmans, and Diederik Depla. 2018. “An X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of the Target Surface Composition after Reactive Magnetron Sputtering.” SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY 353: 231–236. doi:10.1016/j.surfcoat.2018.09.002.
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- 1.Schelfhout R, Strijckmans K, Depla D. An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of the target surface composition after reactive magnetron sputtering. SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY. 2018;353:231–6.
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- [1]R. Schelfhout, K. Strijckmans, and D. Depla, “An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of the target surface composition after reactive magnetron sputtering,” SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY, vol. 353, pp. 231–236, 2018.
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