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Highly Supersaturated, Highly Strained Sputtered Ag-Co and Ag-Ni Layers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

L. Velterop ,
A. Buis ,
R. Delhez ,
Th.H. de Keijser ,
E.J. Mittemeijer  and
D. Reefman
L. Velterop
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Materials Science, Delft University of Technology, Rotterdamseweg 137, 2628 AL Delft, The Netherlands
A. Buis
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Materials Science, Delft University of Technology, Rotterdamseweg 137, 2628 AL Delft, The Netherlands
R. Delhez
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Materials Science, Delft University of Technology, Rotterdamseweg 137, 2628 AL Delft, The Netherlands
Th.H. de Keijser
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Materials Science, Delft University of Technology, Rotterdamseweg 137, 2628 AL Delft, The Netherlands
E.J. Mittemeijer
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Materials Science, Delft University of Technology, Rotterdamseweg 137, 2628 AL Delft, The Netherlands
D. Reefman
Affiliation:
Philips Research Laboratories, Prof. Holstlaan 4, 5656 AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Thin Ag-Ni and Ag-Co layers with compositions of 0, 15, 22 to 28 at% Ni or Co were made by magnetron sputtering. TEM experiments revealed that the layers exhibited a {111} fiber texture with a high density of twins, always with the twinning plane parallel to the layer surface. X-ray diffraction and TEM results indicate that all Ni or Co is dissolved in the Ag, although some compositional inhomogeneity occurs: the layers are highly supersaturated with Ni or Co. Unlike the pure Ag layer, the Ag-Ni and Ag-Co layers exhibited high strains in the as prepared state.

Upon annealing Ni or Co precipitated. The Ni precipitates were small, spherical particles oriented parallel to the surrounding Ag. The strains in the Ag-Ni and Ag-Co layers after annealing were less than the calculated thermal strains, but they were larger than the strain in the pure Ag layer after an equal annealing treatment.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 472: Symposium I – Polycrystalline Thin Films - Structure, Texture, Properties..III , 1997 , 63
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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