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In Situ Study of the Effects of Heavy-Ion Irradiation on Co-Evaporated Cosi2 Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Charles W. Allen  and
David A. Smith
Charles W. Allen
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
David A. Smith
Affiliation:
IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA
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Abstract

The in situ ion irradiation capability of Argonne’s HVEM-Tandem User Facility has been employed to study effects of 1.5 MeV Kr+ irradiation and 300 kV electron irradiation on the crystallization of as-deposited and of partially crystallized 40 nm thick films of CoSi2. Ion fluxes ranged from 8.5×1014 to 6.8×1015 m−2s−1 for which beam heating effects may be neglected. The maximum electron flux at 300 kV was 0.8×1023 m−2S−1. The maximum temperature at which crystalline CoSi2 is amorphized by the ion irradiation of flux = 6.8×1015 m−2s−1 is between 250 and 280 K. At higher temperatures amorphous material crystallizes by growth of any preexisting crystals and by classical nucleation and growth, with radial growth rates which are proportional to ion flux. The average degree of transformation per ion is 4×10−26 m3 per ion. Thermally induced crystallization of as-deposited films occurs above approximately 420 K. For ion doses at least as low as 3.4×1016 m−2 ion irradiation at 300 K promotes thermal crystallization at 450 K, by virtue of enhanced apparent nucleation and at large doses, by enhanced growth rate.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 201: Symposium A – Surface Chemistry and Beam-Solid Interactions , 1990 , 405
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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