期刊
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
卷 464, 期 -, 页码 682-691出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.09.107
关键词
TiN; Mossbauer spectroscopy; Epitaxial thin film; Defects
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资金
- European Union Seventh Framework through ENSAR [262010]
- Icelandic Research Fund [110017021-23]
- Osterreichische Forschungsgesellschaft - FFG [P841482]
- Austrian Science Foundation - FWF [P26830]
- European Research Council - ERC [227690]
- South African Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [05K16PGA, 05K16SI1]
- European Research Council (ERC) [227690] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P26830] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The properties and performance of TiN thin films are closely related to the concentration and mobility of lattice defects in the thin film structures of TiN. This makes a local atomic scale study of TiN thin films an ever-growing demand. Emission Fe-57 Mossbauer spectroscopy (eMS) is a powerful tool in this regard, which we apply here to study an ultrathin TiN film epitaxially grown on MgO (1 0 0). With the help of theoretical calculations, our results show that most implanted Fe ions adopt a 2(+) valence state and locate at the Ti sublattice in the bulk-like single crystalline grains, with the rest Fe residing at the grain boundaries as interstitials. A small percentage of nitrogen point defects (vacancy V-N and interstitial N-I) are observed in the bulk-like crystalline grains. A temperature-dependent, interstitial N-I mediated site-exchange between N-I and V-N inside the crystal grain are deduced via a N-2 dimmer like diffusion of N-I through the crystal grains in the temperature range of 540-620 K. This is interesting in the perspective of exploring the catalytic property of TiN nanostructures. The titanium vacancy (V-Ti) is only detected at the grain boundaries. Annealing up to 813 K, both the V-N and N-I are annihilated in the crystalline grains and the V-Ti is fully recovered with healing of the grain boundaries. However, no evidence of ferromagnetism due to dilute implantation of Mn-57/Fe-57 and or structural defects in the film is obtained. This suggests that the so far reported dilute magnetism and defect-induced ferromagnetism in TiN nanostructures requires a further systematic investigation.
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