scholarly journals The Structure and Stability of Molybdenum Ditelluride Thin Films

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhouling Wang ◽  
Wenwu Wang ◽  
Ya Yang ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Lianghuan Feng ◽  
...  

Molybdenum-tellurium alloy thin films were fabricated by electron beam evaporation and the films were annealed in different conditions in N2ambient. The hexagonal molybdenum ditelluride thin films with well crystallization annealed at 470°C or higher were obtained by solid state reactions. Thermal stability measurements indicate the formation of MoTe2took place at about 350°C, and a subtle weight-loss was in the range between 30°C and 500°C. The evolution of the chemistry for Mo-Te thin films was performed to investigate the growth of the MoTe2thin films free of any secondary phase. And the effect of other postdeposition treatments on the film characteristics was also investigated.

Author(s):  
F. Ma ◽  
S. Vivekanand ◽  
K. Barmak ◽  
C. Michaelsen

Solid state reactions in sputter-deposited Nb/Al multilayer thin films have been studied by transmission and analytical electron microscopy (TEM/AEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The Nb/Al multilayer thin films for TEM studies were sputter-deposited on (1102)sapphire substrates. The periodicity of the films is in the range 10-500 nm. The overall composition of the films are 1/3, 2/1, and 3/1 Nb/Al, corresponding to the stoichiometric composition of the three intermetallic phases in this system.Figure 1 is a TEM micrograph of an as-deposited film with periodicity A = dA1 + dNb = 72 nm, where d's are layer thicknesses. The polycrystalline nature of the Al and Nb layers with their columnar grain structure is evident in the figure. Both Nb and Al layers exhibit crystallographic texture, with the electron diffraction pattern for this film showing stronger diffraction spots in the direction normal to the multilayer. The X-ray diffraction patterns of all films are dominated by the Al(l 11) and Nb(l 10) peaks and show a merging of these two peaks with decreasing periodicity.


2005 ◽  
Vol 239 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 327-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Zhu ◽  
Peng Chen ◽  
Ricky K.Y. Fu ◽  
Weili Liu ◽  
Chenglu Lin ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 793-796
Author(s):  
Hideki Kawaguchi ◽  
Tadashi Ishigaki ◽  
Takayoshi Adachi ◽  
Yuki Oshima ◽  
Koutoku Ohmi

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