Influence of a Revolutionary Substrate on Hysteresis Effect in Reactive Sputtering Deposition of Vanadium Oxide

<p><span lang="EN-US">Reactive sputter processes frequently exhibit stability problems. The cause of this is that these processes normally exhibit hysteresis effects in the processing curves. Eliminating or decreasing the hysteresis would significantly simplify the use of react...

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Main Authors: He YU, Tao WANG, Xiang DONG, Yadong JIANG, Roland WU
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Published: Kaunas University of Technology 2016-05-01
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Online Access:http://matsc.ktu.lt/index.php/MatSc/article/view/7569
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author He YU
Tao WANG
Xiang DONG
Yadong JIANG
Roland WU
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Tao WANG
Xiang DONG
Yadong JIANG
Roland WU
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description <p><span lang="EN-US">Reactive sputter processes frequently exhibit stability problems. The cause of this is that these processes normally exhibit hysteresis effects in the processing curves. Eliminating or decreasing the hysteresis would significantly simplify the use of reactive sputtering processes. In this work, we present reactive sputtering deposition modeling of vanadium oxide with a revolutionary substrate, aiming to study the influence of it on hysteresis effect. Based on this modeling, the fractions of V, V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>, VO<sub>2</sub>, V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> at the target surface and target voltage have been investigated as a function of reactive gas flow during the reactive sputtering. </span><span lang="EN-US">The substrate area was replaced by a new parameter of effective area of substrate A<sub>s </sub>which was </span><span lang="EN-GB">calculated as a sum of contributions from the substrate area at each cell of time</span><span lang="EN-US">. </span><span lang="EN-US">From the modeling results, it is suggested that the effective area of the substrate was reduced for reactive sputtering with revolutionary substrate, thus the hysteresis width would be decreased. This has been experimentally verified by reactive sputtering deposition of VO<sub>x</sub>. Besides, the fundamental explanation to this behavior as well as the experimental verification is presented.</span></p><p>DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ms.22.1.7569">http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ms.22.1.7569</a></p>
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spelling doaj.art-6b005eb7dcb249dcb3a1dba7b946e2362022-12-22T02:24:00ZengKaunas University of TechnologyMedžiagotyra1392-13202029-72892016-05-01221111410.5755/j01.ms.22.1.75696736Influence of a Revolutionary Substrate on Hysteresis Effect in Reactive Sputtering Deposition of Vanadium OxideHe YUTao WANGXiang DONGYadong JIANGRoland WU<p><span lang="EN-US">Reactive sputter processes frequently exhibit stability problems. The cause of this is that these processes normally exhibit hysteresis effects in the processing curves. Eliminating or decreasing the hysteresis would significantly simplify the use of reactive sputtering processes. In this work, we present reactive sputtering deposition modeling of vanadium oxide with a revolutionary substrate, aiming to study the influence of it on hysteresis effect. Based on this modeling, the fractions of V, V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>, VO<sub>2</sub>, V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> at the target surface and target voltage have been investigated as a function of reactive gas flow during the reactive sputtering. </span><span lang="EN-US">The substrate area was replaced by a new parameter of effective area of substrate A<sub>s </sub>which was </span><span lang="EN-GB">calculated as a sum of contributions from the substrate area at each cell of time</span><span lang="EN-US">. </span><span lang="EN-US">From the modeling results, it is suggested that the effective area of the substrate was reduced for reactive sputtering with revolutionary substrate, thus the hysteresis width would be decreased. This has been experimentally verified by reactive sputtering deposition of VO<sub>x</sub>. Besides, the fundamental explanation to this behavior as well as the experimental verification is presented.</span></p><p>DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ms.22.1.7569">http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ms.22.1.7569</a></p>http://matsc.ktu.lt/index.php/MatSc/article/view/7569reactive sputtering, modeling, hysteresis effect, revolutionary substrate
spellingShingle He YU
Tao WANG
Xiang DONG
Yadong JIANG
Roland WU
Influence of a Revolutionary Substrate on Hysteresis Effect in Reactive Sputtering Deposition of Vanadium Oxide
Medžiagotyra
reactive sputtering, modeling, hysteresis effect, revolutionary substrate
title Influence of a Revolutionary Substrate on Hysteresis Effect in Reactive Sputtering Deposition of Vanadium Oxide
title_full Influence of a Revolutionary Substrate on Hysteresis Effect in Reactive Sputtering Deposition of Vanadium Oxide
title_fullStr Influence of a Revolutionary Substrate on Hysteresis Effect in Reactive Sputtering Deposition of Vanadium Oxide
title_full_unstemmed Influence of a Revolutionary Substrate on Hysteresis Effect in Reactive Sputtering Deposition of Vanadium Oxide
title_short Influence of a Revolutionary Substrate on Hysteresis Effect in Reactive Sputtering Deposition of Vanadium Oxide
title_sort influence of a revolutionary substrate on hysteresis effect in reactive sputtering deposition of vanadium oxide
topic reactive sputtering, modeling, hysteresis effect, revolutionary substrate
url http://matsc.ktu.lt/index.php/MatSc/article/view/7569
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