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Processing and microstructural characterization of sputter-deposited Ni/Ni3Al multilayered thin films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2012

Evan A. Sperling
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Rajarshi Banerjee
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Gregory B. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Jason P. Fain
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Peter M. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Hamish L. Fraser
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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Abstract

The crystallographic texture, orientation relationships, coherency stress, and thermal stability of sputter-deposited Ni/Ni3Al multilayered thin films were studied as a function of bilayer period (Λ) as well as processing parameters such as substrate type, deposition temperature, and prebake conditions. Deposition onto oxidized Si or single-crystal Cu(001), NaCl(001), or KBr(001) substrates near room temperature produces multilayers with a [111] crystallographic texture along the Ni/Ni3Al interface normal and a disordered face-centered cubic structure for the Ni3Al phase. In contrast, deposition at 673 K onto NaCl(001) or KBr(001) substrates that are prebaked in vacuum at 693 K produces a chemically ordered L12 structure for the Ni3Al phase and (001) epitaxial growth. X-ray diffraction measurements of (001) multilayers with equal volume fraction of Ni and Ni3Al reveals a transition from a nearly incoherent state at Λ=40 nm to a semicoherent one at Λ 40 nm. Remarkably, (001) multilayers were observed to solutionize at 1373 K, which is approximately 100 K below that predicted by the Ni–Al phase diagram.

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