Morphological characterization of ion-sputtered C–Ag, C/C–Ag and Ag/C films by GISAXS

Author:

Babonneau D.,Naudon A.,Thiaudière D.,Lequien S.

Abstract

A carbon–silver thin film (33 at.% Ag and thickness of 2100 Å) has been synthesized by co-sputtering of a C–Ag target and characterized by grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS), a technique that gives a considerably enhanced surface sensitivity. Experiments have been carried out at or near the critical angle of the layer. It is shown that, because C and Ag show no mutual solubility, a demixing occurs during the co-deposition process and silver clusters form within an amorphous carbon matrix. Using different incident angles of the X-ray beam, it is demonstrated that two populations of clusters are present in the layer: some large and nearly spherical on the surface, others smaller and elongated along the direction of the growth of the thin film in the bulk. In the case of a C/C–Ag bilayer, the surface diffusion is avoided just after the co-deposition process and it is shown that only the small and elongated clusters in the bulk are formed. In the case of a very thin Ag/C layer, there is only surface diffusion and it is shown that large silver islands are formed on the carbon surface. Such experiments demonstrate that the growth mechanism that takes place during the co-deposition process involves mainly a surface diffusion of silver and carbon atoms, as opposed to a volume diffusion.

Publisher

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)

Subject

General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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