J 2022

Germanium-antimony-selenium-tellurium thin films: Clusters formation by laser ablation and comparison with clusters from mixtures of elements

HUANG, Fei, Tomáš HALENKOVIČ, Marion BAILLIEUL, Virginie NAZABAL, Petr NĚMEC et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Germanium-antimony-selenium-tellurium thin films: Clusters formation by laser ablation and comparison with clusters from mixtures of elements

Authors

HUANG, Fei (156 China, belonging to the institution), Tomáš HALENKOVIČ, Marion BAILLIEUL, Virginie NAZABAL, Petr NĚMEC and Josef HAVEL (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Wiley, 2022, 0002-7820

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

20501 Materials engineering

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.900

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00125350

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000722554000001

Keywords in English

amorphous chalcogenides; clusters; Ge-Sb-Se-Te; laser ablation; magnetron sputtering; mass spectrometry; thin films

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 9/2/2022 10:33, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Abstract

V originále

Quaternary germanium-antimony-selenium-tellurium (Ge-Sb-Se-Te) thin films deposited from Ge19.4Sb16.7Se63.9-xTex (x = 5, 10, 15, and 20) glass-ceramics targets by radio frequency magnetron sputtering were studied using laser ablation quadrupole ion trap time of flight mass spectrometry. Binary, ternary, and quaternary GeaSbbSecTed clusters were formed and their stoichiometry was determined. By comparison of the clusters obtained from quaternary Ge-Sb-Se-Te thin films and those from ternary Ge-Sb-Te materials, we found that Ge-Te species are not detected from the quaternary system. Furthermore, Ge-Se and Se-Te species are missing in mass spectra generated from Ge-Sb-Se-Te thin films. From the Ge-Sb-Se-Te thin films, 16 clusters were detected while ternary Ge-Sb-Se glasses yielded 26 species. This might be considered as a signal of higher stability of Ge-Sb-Se-Te thin films which is increasing with a higher content of Te. The missing (Se-2(+), GeaSb+ (a = 1-4), and GeSec+ (c = 1, 2)) and new (Ge+ and SbbTe+ (b = 1-3)) clusters may indicate that some of the structural features of the films (Ge2Se6/2 and Se2Sb-SbSe2) were replaced by (GeSe4-x,Te-x and SbSe3-xTex) ones. In addition, when comparing the stoichiometry of clusters formed from Ge-Sb-Se-Te thin films with those from the mixtures of the elements, only Sb-3(+) and SbSe+ were observed in both cases. The knowledge gained concerning clusters stoichiometry contributes to the elucidation of the processes proceeding during plasma formation used for the chalcogenide thin films deposition.

Links

MUNI/A/1390/2020, interní kód MU
Name: Analytická a fyzikální chemie ve výzkumu biologických, geologických a syntetických materiálů (Acronym: BIOGEOSYNT)
Investor: Masaryk University