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INFRARED PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2023.104664
Keywords
Antireflection coating; Optical communication; Reactive magnetron sputtering; Ion assistance; Silicon nitride
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With the development of silicon-based photonics, silica and silicon nitride anti-reflection coatings with tunable refractive index were deposited by ion-assisted reactive magnetron sputtering. The optimized coatings exhibited average reflectance of 0.74% for single-layer and below 0.35% for multi-layer coatings. These coatings have broadband low reflectance and high deposition quality, making them suitable for optical communication devices.
With the rapid development of silicon-based photonics, broadband anti-reflection coatings for the optical communication band are desired. Silica and silicon nitride with tunable refractive index were employed in antireflection coatings, which were deposited by ion-assisted reactive magnetron sputtering. The results showed that the average reflectance of 0.74% for single-layer coatings and below 0.12% after optimization for each sub-band. With the insertion layer, the anti-reflection band broadened and covered the optical communication band. Multilayer coatings' average reflectance was reduced to within 0.35%, with only 0.19% for four-layer coatings. Both single-layer and multi-layer coatings exhibited impressive deposition quality. For single-layer and multi-layer coatings, no obvious defects were found on the surface and cross-sectional morphology, and the roughness remained within 0.5 nm. In this work, anti-reflection coatings were deposited by ion-assisted reflective magnetron sputtering, featuring broadband low reflectance and high deposition quality, which is suitable for serving optical communication devices such as photodetectors and wide-tunable lasers.
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