HEFNY, Mohamed Mokhtar, David NEČAS, Lenka ZAJÍČKOVÁ and Jan BENEDIKT. The transport and surface reactivity of O atoms during the atmospheric plasma etching of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films. PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. BRISTOL: IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2019, vol. 28, No 3, p. 1-8. ISSN 0963-0252. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ab0354.
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Original name The transport and surface reactivity of O atoms during the atmospheric plasma etching of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films
Authors HEFNY, Mohamed Mokhtar, David NEČAS (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lenka ZAJÍČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jan BENEDIKT (guarantor).
Edition PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, BRISTOL, IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2019, 0963-0252.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10302 Condensed matter physics
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 3.193
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/19:00115475
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ab0354
UT WoS 000461069700003
Keywords in English atmospheric pressure plasma; transport of reactive species; O atoms; atmospheric plasma etching
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Abstract
A remote microscale atmospheric pressure plasma jet with a He/O-2 gas mixture is used to etch a hydrogenated amorphous carbon layer. The etched profiles are measured by means of imaging spectroscopic reflectometry, a powerful technique providing a 2D map of the film thickness (etched profile) and also film properties. Additionally, the 2D axially symmetric fluid model of the gas flow and species transport combined with the basic kinetic model of the reaction of O atoms with O-2 molecules has been solved to study the transport and surface reactivity of O atoms. The model provides a spatially resolved and surface-integrated O atom loss rate at the surface. The situation with convection-dominated species transport and fast recombination reactions of O atoms in the volume leads to a strong dependence of the etched profile on the O-2 admixture and O atom surface loss probability beta. By comparing etched profiles with the simulation results, the O atom surface reaction probability of beta = 0.2%-0.6% could be estimated. The modeled O atom loss rate at the surface was always higher and with the same trend as the etching rate, corroborating that O atoms are the main etching species. The presented data and simulation results show that the fastest surface-integrated etching rate is achieved not under conditions with the highest O density on the jet axis, but at lower O-2 admixtures due to reduced recombination losses in the gas phase.
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LQ1601, research and development projectName: CEITEC 2020 (Acronym: CEITEC2020)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
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