Affiliation:
1. Chair for Multicomponent Materials Department of Materials Science Faculty of Engineering Kiel University Kaiserstraße 2 D‐24143 Kiel Germany
2. Molecular Imaging North Competence Center (MOIN CC) Am Botanischen Garten 14 24118 Kiel Germany
3. Kiel Nano Surface and Interface Science KiNSIS Kiel University Christian‐Albrechts‐Platz 4 D‐24118 Kiel Germany
4. Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology Felix‐Hausdorff‐Str. 2 17489 Greifswald Germany
Abstract
AbstractOne particularly interesting approach for the deposition of highly pure nanoparticles (NPs) in a solvent‐ and surfactant‐free process is the gas phase synthesis of nanoparticles using a gas aggregation source (GAS) based on magnetron sputtering. Apart from the possibility of tuning the NP size‐distribution via process parameters, e.g., gas flow, pressure, and aggregation length, multicomponent targets in a GAS enable in operando composition tuning of alloy NPs. However, in the practical application of the GAS, two main challenges have to be addressed: low target utilization and low conversion efficiency. This work describes a magnetron with a concentrically moveable erosion zone (cMEZ magnetron), and showcases its applicability for the deposition of metal (Cu) and metal alloy (CuNi) NPs via GAS. The cMEZ magnetron relies on an in operando reconfigurable outer magnet array, which enables tuning of the position of the erosion zone, impacting target utilization. By weighting the targets and substrates before and after deposition, the conversion efficiency is determined for different operating pressures and magnet configurations. Furthermore, the multicomponent target approach is tested with the cMEZ magnetron, which enabled the in operando composition tuning of the Ni content in CuNi NPs from ≈5 to ≈35 at% only by varying the magnetic field.
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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