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Excimer Laser Fabrication of Polycrystalline ZrO2 Layers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Abstract
Polycrystalline zirconia layers have remarkable low thermal conductivity and thermal expansion coefficient, high melting temperature and mechanical properties which are objects of interest in materials science. In this work thin polycrystalline zirconia films were obtained by two different excimer laser treatment ways. In the first one, pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is used to obtain directly as-deposited polycrystalline layers from a sintered, partially stabilized zirconia target. In the second one, excimer laser irradiation is used to crystallize previously electron gun-deposited amorphous zirconia films. Reflection high energy electron diffraction(RHEED) and low angle X-ray diffraction(LAXRD)-techniques were used to study the structure evolution of both types of films. In both cases, it is shown that cubic polycrystalline films are readily obtained.
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