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Substrate rotation effect over scaling roughness exponents in Zr thin films grown by GLAD technique

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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 559, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.149660

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Scaling exponents; GLAD technique; Substrate rotation; Atomic force microscopy

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The roughness scaling behavior of Zr thin films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering was studied using atomic force microscopy scans, showing that the growth exponent increases with rotation speed, resulting in mound-like growth with reduced shadowing effect. The increase in beta was attributed to the remission process, where incoming atoms lose more kinetic energy when colliding with a substrate in motion, leading to an increased sticking coefficient.
In this work, roughness scaling behavior of glancing angle deposited Zr thin films by DC magnetron sputtering at different substrate rotation speeds, have been studied using height-height correlation function (HHCF) and power spectral density (PSD) function analysis, from atomic force microscopy scans. The Zr thin films exhibit a local roughness exponent close to the unity. However, the growth exponent increases with rotation speed from 0.9 to 1.1. The PSD plot exhibits a characteristic peak, indicating a mound-like growth. Distance between mounds (characteristic length) decreases as rotation increases, demonstrating a reduction of the shadowing effect. It is concluded that the increase of beta is due to the remission process. Incoming atoms lose more kinetic energy when colliding with a substrate in motion, which leads an increase in the sticking coefficient.

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