Atomic Layer Deposition of Copper Metal Films from Cu(acac)2 and Hydroquinone Reductant

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2021-10

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en

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6

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Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume 23, issue 10

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High-quality copper metal thin films are demanded for a number of advanced technologies. Herein, a facile ALD (atomic layer deposition) process for the fabrication of Cu metal films directly from two solid readily usable precursors, copper acetylacetonate as the source of copper and hydroquinone as the reductant is reported. This process yields highly crystalline, dense, specularly reflecting, and electrically conductive Cu films with an appreciably high growth rate of 1.8 Å/cycle at deposition temperatures as low as 160 to 240 °C.

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Funding Information: The authors acknowledge the use of the Circular Raw MatTERS Finland Infrastructure (RAMI) at Aalto University. The authors at RUB and Paderborn University thank the SFB‐TR‐87 project for financial support. M.W. thanks COST‐Action HERALD for funding his research stay at Aalto University. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. Advanced Engineering Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH

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ALD, Copper metal film, Cu(acac), Direct reduction, Hydroquinone

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Tripathi, T S, Wilken, M, Hoppe, C, de los Arcos, T, Grundmeier, G, Devi, A & Karppinen, M 2021, ' Atomic Layer Deposition of Copper Metal Films from Cu(acac) 2 and Hydroquinone Reductant ', Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 23, no. 10, 2100446 . https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202100446