Journal
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 793, Issue -, Pages 695-704Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.04.207
Keywords
Combinatorial sputtering; Thin film; Alloy; Plasmonic alloys; Dielectric function model
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- National Science Foundation [NSF DMR 1709275]
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In this study, the optical properties of Au1-xNix alloy thin films are investigated by employing a combinatorial sputtering approach. The dielectric function is measured using spectroscopic ellipsometry and is correlated to the composition, determined by energy dispersive spectroscopy, and phases present, determined via x-ray diffraction. As-deposited alloys form a metastable solid solution, however, annealed alloys exhibited phase separation into Au-rich and Ni-rich phases due to the large miscibility gap in the Au-Ni material system. The optical properties are then rationalized by modeling the dielectric function of the solid solution alloys with a Drude-Critical Point analytical model. Lastly, the efficacy of the model is demonstrated which shows that the dielectric function of the phase separated alloys can be approximated using a composition-weighted average of two solid solution dielectric functions. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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