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Low temperature epitaxial growth of Cantor-nitride thin films by magnetic field assisted magnetron sputtering

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JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A
Volume 41, Issue 5, Pages -

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A V S AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1116/6.0002947

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Low-temperature epitaxial growth of multicomponent alloy-based thin films is a challenging task in materials science, which is crucial for understanding the fundamental properties of these complex materials. In this study, Cantor nitride (CrMnFeCoNi)N thin films were epitaxially grown on MgO(100) substrates at low deposition temperature using magnetic-field-assisted dc-magnetron sputtering. The epitaxial growth was observed as the ion flux was increased.
Low-temperature epitaxial growth of multicomponent alloy-based thin films remains an outstanding challenge in materials science and is important for established fundamental properties of these complex materials. Here, Cantor nitride (CrMnFeCoNi)N thin films were epitaxially grown on MgO(100) substrates at low deposition temperature by magnetic-field-assisted dc-magnetron sputtering, a technique where a magnetic field is applied to steer the dense plasma to the substrate thereby influencing the flux of Ar-ions bombarding the film during growth. Without ion bombardment, the film displayed textured growth. As the ion flux was increased, the films exhibited epitaxial growth. The epitaxial relationship between film and substrate was found to be cube on cube (001)film parallel to(001)MgO, [100]film parallel to[100]MgO. The epitaxy was retained up to a thickness of approximately similar to 100 nm after which the growth becomes textured with a 002 out-of-plane orientation. The elastic constants determined by Brillouin inelastic light scattering were found to be C-11 = 320 GPa, C-12 = 125 GPa, and C-44 = 66 GPa, from which the polycrystalline Young's modulus was calculated as 204 GPa and Poisson's ratio = 0.32, whereas available elastic properties still remained very scarce. (c) 2023 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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