FEKETE, Matej, Petr VAŠINA, Peter KLEIN, Lenka DOSOUDILOVÁ, Zdeněk NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav HNILICA and Pavel DVOŘÁK. Determination of sputtered species densities in HIPIMS discharge by optical emission spectroscopy. In Fifth International Conference on HIPIMS. 2014.
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Original name Determination of sputtered species densities in HIPIMS discharge by optical emission spectroscopy
Authors FEKETE, Matej (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Petr VAŠINA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Peter KLEIN (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Lenka DOSOUDILOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Zdeněk NAVRÁTIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jaroslav HNILICA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Pavel DVOŘÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Fifth International Conference on HIPIMS, 2014.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Conference abstract
Field of Study 10305 Fluids and plasma physics
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/14:00073767
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Keywords in English HIPIMS;OES;density
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Matej Fekete, Ph.D., učo 376265. Changed: 31/7/2014 10:54.
Abstract
Developing of magnetron sputtering process is aiming mainly to increase ionization of sputtered particles, to improve target yield or to enhance deposition rate. HIPIMS discharge yields higher number density of ionized sputtered species than DC case. However, it is difficult to estimate absolute number densities of the sputtered species (atoms and ions) in ground and metastable states from optical emission spectroscopy, because the ground and metastable levels do not directly produce any optical signal. There has been developed variety of indirect methods, however, mainly for rare gases to obtain information about number densities of metastable levels. Our research aim is to adapt these techniques such as self-absorption or effective branching fraction [1] on conditions of HIPIMS discharge. We ran experiments on magnetron with 20 cm titanium target. Lines of titanium neutrals and ions which originate at same higher level and fall to certain sub-level of neutral or ion ground state were carefully selected in our research. The population of these ground state sub-levels was assumed to follow Boltzmann distribution. Fitting theoretically calculated branching rations to experimentally measured ratios of the line intensities enable us to determine number densities of ground state sputtered species from optical emission spectroscopy in a HIPIMS discharge – see estimated evolution of Ti ion number-density together with the discharge current at Fig. 1. This research has been supported by the CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0086 and GACR P205/12/0407 projects.
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ED2.1.00/03.0086, research and development projectName: Regionální VaV centrum pro nízkonákladové plazmové a nanotechnologické povrchové úpravy
GAP205/12/0407, research and development projectName: Porozumění hybridnímu PVD-PECVD procesu s cílem řídit růst nanostrukturovaných kompozitních vrstev
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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