Percolation and Continuation Thickness of Ag Films on the Initial Growth Stage
Percolation and Continuation Thickness of Ag Films on the Initial Growth Stage
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银膜生长初期的渗流及延续厚度
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10.3379/jmsjmag.22.453
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1998
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T. Shiba
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M. Tsunoda;T. Ito;M. Takahashi;T. Shiba
Growth of vapor-deposited Ag films by the coalescence process in the post-nucleation stage is discussed. During and after deposition, the amplitude V of surface acoustic waves (SAW) propagated on the piezoelectric substrate through the films deposited on it, and the electric sheet resistivity of the films, Rsq, were measured. The microstructures of films with various thicknesses d were examined with a scanning electron microscope. As a result, it was found that (1) the thickness dp at which V reaches a minimum value corresponds to the critical thickness at which the islands of a film begin to percolate, (2) the thickness dc at which 1/Rsq begins to be proportional to the film thickness corresponds to the critical thickness at which the film becomes two-dimensionally continuous, (3) dp and dc become larger with decreasing deposition rate, and (4) in the early coalescence stage (d<dp), the microstructural change progresses, increasing the average inter-island spacing. From these results, we can conclude that a higher deposition rate is necessary to suppress the microstructural change of islands and to allow fabrication of continuous ultra-thin films.
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