Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 59, Issue 5, Pages 1862-1870Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.11.052
Keywords
Resistivity; Thin Film; Texture; Palladium; Hydrogen
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [PU 131/7-2]
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Palladium hydrogen thin films are used as a model system to investigate the impact of microstructure and mechanical stress release on the electrical resistivity of thin film metals and alloys that undergo structural phase transitions. The results are compared with bulk resistivity models. Nanocrystalline, multi-oriented and epitaxial films are investigated, yielding initial terminal resistivities rho(infinity)(0) = 152 - 200 Omega nm. The hydrogen-related resistivity changes of epitaxial films are shown to approach the predicted a-phase bulk increment Delta rho(H)/Delta c(H) = 451 Omega nm, while hydrogen trapping in nanocrystalline films strongly reduces the resistivity response. In the two-phase region, the resistivity is shown to be modified by the steric distribution and geometry of the hydride precipitates, yielding different proportions of serial and parallel conduction. Film delamination from the substrate strongly reduces the resistivity increment due to the Gorsky effect. (c) 2010 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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