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Proton NMR Studies of Amorphous Plasma-Deposited Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Jeffrey A. Reimer ,
Robert W. Vaughan  and
John C. Knights
Jeffrey A. Reimer
Affiliation:
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
Robert W. Vaughan
Affiliation:
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
John C. Knights
Affiliation:
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304
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Abstract

Proton magnetic resonance data are presented for the hydrogen alloys of plasma-deposited amorphous boron, silicon, carbon, silicon carbide, and silicon nitride. Linewidth and lineshape analysis leads to the conclusion that hydrogen nuclei are clustered in a-Si/C:H, a-C:H, and a-Si/NiH. The a-Si/C:H and a-C:H data show that hydrogen exists in two phases. Modeling of linewidths in a-Si/C:H indicates that the two phases are heavily hydrogenated carbon clusters imbedded in a weakly hydrogenated silicon lattice. Evidence is also presented for the presence of motionally narrowed hydrogen spectra in a-B:H, a-Si/N:H and a-C:H. “B NMR spectra in a-B:H show no evidence of motional narrowing. It is suggested that the hydrogen nuclei giving rise to the motionally narrowed spectra are associated with disorder modes.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 3: Symposium – Nuclear and Electron Resonance Spectroscopies Applied to Materials Science , 1980 , 347
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1981

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