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Pulsed Laser Deposition Parameter Optimization for Growth of Alumina (Al2O3) Thin Film on Silicon (100)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Xinyu Wang ,
Sergey Yarmolenko ,
Dhananjay Kumar ,
Zhigang Xu  and
Jagannathan Sankar
Xinyu Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E. Market Street, Fort IRC Building, Room 242, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
Sergey Yarmolenko
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E. Market Street, Fort IRC Building, Room 242, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
Dhananjay Kumar
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E. Market Street, Fort IRC Building, Room 242, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
Zhigang Xu
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E. Market Street, Fort IRC Building, Room 242, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
Jagannathan Sankar
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E. Market Street, Fort IRC Building, Room 242, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
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Abstract

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique was used to grow alumina (Al2O3) thin films on (100) silicon substrate under different deposition conditions. The relationship between Al2O3 thin film thickness, hardness, elastic modulus, surface morphology and PLD parameters such as laser energy and substrate temperature was investigated. The Film thickness was found to increase with an increase in laser energy and to decrease with an increase in substrate temperature. The film hardness and elastic modulus increases as substrate temperature increases. We have also shown that films are amorphous at lower substrate temperatures and transform to mixture of amorphous and crystalline phases. The ratio of amorphous to crystalline phases decreases with increase in temperature. The surfaces of Al2O3 film grown using PLD was found very smooth with least root square roughness less than 2 nm.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 788: Symposium L – Continuous Nanophase and Nanostructured Materials , 2003 , L3.39
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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