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MATERIALS
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma13051058
Keywords
atomic layer deposition (ALD); plasmonics; titanium nitride; thin film; optical properties
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1419807]
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Transition metal nitrides, like titanium nitride (TiN), are promising alternative plasmonic materials. Here we demonstrate a low temperature plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PE-ALD) of non-stoichiometric TiN0.71 on lattice-matched and -mismatched substrates. The TiN was found to be optically metallic for both thick (42 nm) and thin (11 nm) films on MgO and Si <100> substrates, with visible light plasmon resonances in the range of 550-650 nm. We also demonstrate that a hydrogen plasma post-deposition treatment improves the metallic quality of the ultrathin films on both substrates, increasing the epsilon(1) slope by 1.3 times on MgO and by 2 times on Si (100), to be similar to that of thicker, more metallic films. In addition, this post-deposition was found to tune the plasmonic properties of the films, resulting in a blue-shift in the plasmon resonance of 44 nm on a silicon substrate and 59 nm on MgO.
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