Atomic/molecular layer deposition of Ti-organic thin films from different aromatic alcohol and amine precursors
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2021-10-31
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Thin Solid Films, Volume 736
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Atomic/molecular layer deposition (ALD/MLD) processes based on TiCl4 as the metal source, and hydroquinone (HQ), 4-aminophenol (AP), p-phenylenediamine (PDA) or 4,4′-oxydianiline (ODA) as the organic precursor are systematically investigated to shed light on the factors affecting the inorganic-organic thin film growth. All the four ALD/MLD processes yield amorphous Ti-organic thin films which are here characterized by ex-situ X-ray reflectivity and Fourier transform infrared measurements for the film thickness and bonding scheme. First principles modelling results are presented to explore differences in the interaction of organic precursors with surface-bound TiCl4. For the TiCl4+AP process the high growth rate achieved, i.e. ca. 10 Å per one ALD/MLD cycle, essentially corresponds to the ideal thickness of the [Ti-O-C6H4[sbnd]N-Ti] building unit. For both the ODA- and PDA-based processes the growth rates are considerably lower, while the TiCl4+HQ process yields the hybrid film with an intermediate growth rate. We attribute these observations to (i) the higher reactivity of the OH groups in comparison to the NH2 groups towards TiCl4, and (ii) the higher tendency of a heterobifunctional organic precursor to orientate vertically and avoid unwanted double reactions on the surface.Description
| openaire: EC/FP7/339478/EU//LAYERENG-HYBMAT Funding Information: This work has received funding from the Academy of Finland (296299) and the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007?2013)/ERC Advanced Grant Agreement (339478). M.N. acknowledges support from Science Foundation Ireland through the SFI-NSF China Partnership project NITRALD (17/NSFC/5279) and from the SFI/HEA-funded Irish Centre for High End Computing, ICHEC. The experimental research made use of the RawMatters Finland infrastructure (RAMI) facilities based at Aalto University. Funding Information: This work has received funding from the Academy of Finland ( 296299 ) and the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme ( FP/2007 – 2013 )/ ERC Advanced Grant Agreement ( 339478 ). M.N. acknowledges support from Science Foundation Ireland through the SFI-NSF China Partnership project NITRALD ( 17/NSFC/5279 ) and from the SFI/HEA-funded Irish Centre for High End Computing , ICHEC. The experimental research made use of the RawMatters Finland infrastructure (RAMI) facilities based at Aalto University. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s)
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Tanskanen, A, Sundberg, P, Nolan, M & Karppinen, M 2021, ' Atomic/molecular layer deposition of Ti-organic thin films from different aromatic alcohol and amine precursors ', Thin Solid Films, vol. 736, 138896 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2021.138896