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arXiv:1409.6477 (cond-mat)
[Submitted on 23 Sep 2014]

Title:Growth Kinetics of Ion Beam Sputtered Al-thin films by Dynamic Scaling Theory

Authors:Neha Sharma, K. Prabakar, S. Dash, A. K. Tyagi
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Abstract:This paper reports the study of growth kinetics of ion beam sputtered aluminum thin films. Dynamic scaling theory was used to derive the kinetics from AFM measurements. AFM imaging revealed that surface incorporates distinctly different morphologies. Variation in deposition times resulted in such distinctiveness. The growth governing static (alpha) as well as dynamic (beta) scaling exponents have been determined. The exponent (alpha) decreased as the deposition time increased from 3 to 15 minutes. Consequently, the interfacial width (xi) also decreased with critical length (Lc), accompanied with an increase in surface roughness. Surface diffusion becomes a major surface roughening phenomenon that occurs during deposition carried out over a short period of 3 minutes. Extension of deposition time to 15 minutes brought in bulk diffusion process to dominate which eventually led to smoothening of a continuous film.
Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
MSC classes: 00-02
Cite as: arXiv:1409.6477 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
  (or arXiv:1409.6477v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1409.6477
Journal reference: Thin Solid Films 573 (2014) 84
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2014.10.094

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From: Neha Sharma [view email]
[v1] Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:41:34 UTC (1,090 KB)
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