Ellipsometric Evaluation of the Optical Constants of Zirconium Oxynitride Thin Films Deposited by Reactive Pulsed Magnetron Sputtering

• Authors: I. Tomsah
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Three different zirconium oxynitride films were deposited onto glass and Si (100) substrates at room temperature by pulsed reactive dc magnetron sputtering of a metallic Zr target in an Ar/O_2/N_2 atmosphere. The structural, compositional and optical properties of the deposited films were found to depend on the ratio of nitrogen partial pressure to the total reactive gas partial pressure. Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy measurements revealed that as the nitrogen amount increased in the reactive gas the nitrogen content was found to increase in the film. The film structure was determined by X-ray diffraction. The X-ray diffraction patterns of the analyzed samples revealed a strong dependence of the ZrO_xN_{y} film structure on composition. A two layer model, the Bruggeman effective medium approximation and both Drude absorption edge and Lorentz oscillators were used to describe the surface roughness layer and the main ZnO_xN_{y} layer, respectively, was used to describe the experimental ellipsometric data. The optical band gap was decreased from 3.56 to 3.45 eV with changing nitrogen content, while refractive index at 650 nm simultaneously was increased from 1.98 to 2.11.

Keywords

EN

81.15.Gh; 61.05.C-; 78.66.-w

Discipline

• 78.66.-w: Optical properties of specific thin films(for optical properties of low-dimensional, mesoscopic, and nanoscale materials, see 78.67.-n; for optical properties of surfaces, see 78.68.+m)
• 81.15.Gh: Chemical vapor deposition (including plasma-enhanced CVD, MOCVD, ALD, etc.)(for chemistry of MOCVD, see 82.33.Ya in physical chemistry and chemical physics)
• 61.05.C-: X-ray diffraction and scattering(for x-ray diffractometers, see 07.85.Jy; for x-ray studies of crystal defects, see 61.72.Dd, Ff)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 124
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 141-145

Dates

published

2013-07

received

2012-06-12

(unknown)

2013-03-05

Contributors

author

I. Tomsah

• Physics Department, College of Science, Qassim University, P.O. 6644, 51452, Buryadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.124.141