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Morphology control in Ni/Ti multilayer neutron mirrors by ion-assisted interface engineering and B4C incorporation

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OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 1424-1439

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Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OME.476713

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By modulating ion assistance, the interface width of Ni/Ti broad band neutron multilayer supermirrors can be reduced, leading to improved optical contrast and minimum layer thickness.
The optical contrast and minimum layer thickness of Ni/Ti broadband neutron multilayer supermirrors is usually hampered by an interface width, typically 0.7 nm, caused by nanocrystallites, interdiffusion, and/or intermixing. We explore the elimination of nanocrystallites in combination with interface smoothening by modulation of ion assistance during magnetron sputter deposition of 0.8 to 6.4 nm thick Ni and Ti layers. The amorphization is achieved through incorporation of natural B4C where B and C preferably bond to Ti. A two-stage substrate bias was applied to each layer;-30 V for the initial 1 nm followed by-100 V for the remaining part, generating multilayer mirrors with interface widths of 0.40-0.45 nm. The results predict that high performance supermirrors with m-values as high as 10 are feasible by using 11B isotope-enriched B4C combined with temporal control of the ion assistance. Published by Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

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