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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
Thin films of zirconium oxynitride (ZrNO) and titanium oxynitride (TiNO) have been deposited onto Si(100) substrates at room temperature by radiofrequency magnetron sputtering in an argon–oxygen–nitrogen atmosphere. Single oxynitride layers have been stacked to obtain a multilayer structure. The film structure has been determined by X-ray diffraction while compositional analysis has been performed by X-photoelectrons spectroscopy. Structural analysis has shown that TiNO can be represented as a cubic structure where oxygen atoms replace nitrogen ones while ZrNO can be described as a cubic ZrO2 where nitrogen atoms replace oxygen ones. Besides the main peak, the multilayer films show satellite peaks, proving the formation of the stacked structure. The final films stoichiometry has been explained by a growth model. It establishes that in TiNO films the nitrogen vacancies filling by reactive reactions with …
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Publication date: 
1 Sep 2009
Authors: 

A Rizzo, MA Signore, L Mirenghi, T Di Luccio

Biblio References: 
Volume: 517 Issue: 21 Pages: 5956-5964
Origin: 
Thin Solid Films