Interface Engineering for Extremely Large Grains in Explosively Crystallized TiO2 Films Grown by Low-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition

Functionality in thin films is closely linked with both the microstructure of the film as well as the innate nature of the thin film material. The engineering of microstructure, especially the grain size and its distribution in oxide thin films, is critical to designing functionalities targeting spe...

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Veröffentlicht in:Chemistry of materials 2017-03, Vol.29 (5), p.2046-2054
Hauptverfasser: Cho, Cheol Jin, Kang, Jun-Yun, Lee, Woo Chul, Baek, Seung-Hyub, Kim, Jin-Sang, Hwang, Cheol Seong, Kim, Seong Keun
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Functionality in thin films is closely linked with both the microstructure of the film as well as the innate nature of the thin film material. The engineering of microstructure, especially the grain size and its distribution in oxide thin films, is critical to designing functionalities targeting specific applications. However, the scope for manipulation of the microstructure of an oxide thin film is generally quite limited because of the lack of mobility of atoms at processing temperatures that are usually employed for the growth of these films. This work reports the observation of very large grains (∼100 times larger than the film thickness) in TiO2 films grown by atomic layer deposition at low temperature (
ISSN:0897-4756
1520-5002
DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b04090