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EPSRC Reference: GR/P00017/01
Title: DTA - University of Greenwich
Principal Investigator: Peck, Mrs KF
Other Investigators:
Reed, Professor A Snowden, Professor M Pericleous, Professor KA
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Department: Greenwich Research and Enterprise Office
Organisation: University of Greenwich
Scheme: Doctoral Training Grant
Starts: 01 October 2001 Ends: 30 September 2005 Value (£): 74,699
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In this short collaborative programme, we plan to carry out a detailed study of the energetics of plasma species arriving at a substrate in a pulsed magnetron discharge. Pulsed reactive and non-reactive sputtering has become a hugely important technique in the production of quality thin films and coatings, particularly optical coatings. However, knowledge of the energy and flux of the ionic and neutral species arriving at the growing film in the pulsed environment is still poor.We will development an existing commercial energy-resolved mass spectrometer (EQP 300) so that we can perform fast time resolved measurements during the pulse (1-50 kHz). A titanium target will be used, for both non-reactive (argon) and reactive (argon + oxygen, nitrogen and methane) plasmas.Of particular interest is the energy distribution, flux and relative arrival times of: i) the sputtered Ti atoms, ii) ionised sputtered material, iii) the sputtering gas background (either atomic, molecular or ionic) and iv) energetic reflected Ar atoms from the target, for different discharge powers, pressures, pulse frequencies and duty cycles.No such measurements have been published to date.
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