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MATERIALS SCIENCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING
Volume 123, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mssp.2020.105513
Keywords
Nb2O5 films; Sputtering; Deposition temperature; Corrosion; Optical properties
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- Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India [03 (1416)/17/EMR-II]
- DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Government of India [ERIP/ER/201705003/M/01/1735]
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This study investigated the temperature-dependent optical, wetting, and corrosion properties of niobium oxide (Nb2O5) coatings deposited on glass and stainless steel substrates. The nano-sliced Nb2O5 film deposited at 200 degrees Celsius on stainless steel exhibited excellent optical properties, transparency, wetting behavior, and material protection compared to other samples.
In the present work, the deposition temperature-dependent optical, wetting and corrosion properties of niobium oxide (Nb2O5) coatings was investigated. The Nb2O5 thin films were deposited on two different substrates i.e. glass and stainless steel (SS 304) by using sputtering technique at various deposition temperatures (RT, 100 & 200 degrees C) in Ar:O-2 (3:1) atmosphere. To confirm the pertinent growth of the prepared samples, X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were employed. The optical, wetting and corrosion studies of the synthesized samples were executed using UV Vis-spectroscopy (UV), contact angle (CA) and cyclic voltammetry (CV), respectively. The aquatic corrosion studies of Nb2O5 films deposited on SS samples were estimated under two dissimilar ways. The Tafel plot (polarization curve) and EIS (electrochemical impedance spectra) were accomplished in terms of polarization resistance (R-p) under saline water (3.5% NaCl aqueous solution) environment. Nano-sliced Nb2O5 film deposited at 200 degrees C on SS substrate exhibited excellent optical, good transparency, wetting and material protective behavior i.e. transmittance (similar to 91%), refractive index (n) similar to 2.3045, hydrophobicity (theta(w)) similar to 97.3 degrees, corrosion rate similar to 6.9 x 10(-3) mm/y and R-p similar to 2.78 x 10(6) Omega-cm(2) in comparison to the other samples (coated and uncoated).
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