Abstract.
We have succeeded to fabricate the thin film mainly or entirely consisting of nano-crystallites TiO on a substrate at room temperature by using the magnetron sputtering combined with the gas aggregation method which has the capability to deposit grown small particles and/or clusters of the desired compound material on the substrate in soft-landed mode. The important experimental parameters to control the growth of TiO particles are identified as partial pressure of additional oxygen gas, growth-reaction distance Ltd, and LN2 cooling of growth chamber. The smallest averaged diameter of TiO nano-particles is 5.62 nm and size distribution being from 2 to 8 nm under 50 mm of Ltd. The compositional uniformity is confirmed by EDS and EELS. The chemical state of the film observed by Ti 2P XPS peak confirms the primarily growth of TiO and indicates the formation of minor content of amorphous Ti1-xOx and/or Ti1-xCx particularly at the surface of the film.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
C. Queniset, R. Naslain, P. Demoncy, Surf. Interf. Anal. 13, 130 (1988)
M.S. Ameen et al. MRS Sym. Proc. 200, 65 (1990)
I.N. Matrev, Vacuum 58, 327 (2000)
R. Ramesh et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 61, 1537 (1992)
K.A. Grigorov, M. Stoyanova, I.N. Matrev, Bulg. J. Phys. 25, 177 (1998)
K.G. Grigorov, D. Bouchier, M. Stoyanova, G.I. Grigorov, R. Caudano, R. Sporcen, C.R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 50, 29 (1997)
H. Haberland, M. Karrais, M. Mall, Z. Phys. D 20, 413 (1991)
M. Gotoh, J. Murakami, Y. Tai, K. Yoshimura, K. Igarashi, S. Tanemura, Z. Phys. D 40, 115 (1997)
M. Gotoh, J. Murakami, Y. Tai, K. Igarashi, S. Tanemura, M. Kusunoki, Jpn J. Appl. Phys. 37, L1537 (1998)
JCPDS-International Centre for Diffraction Data, PDF 08-0117
L. Miao et al. J. Cryst. Growth 260, 118 (2004)
H.F. Franzen, M.X. Umana, J.R. McCreary, R.J. Thorn, J. Solid State Chem. 18, 363 (1976)
M.B. Walsh, R.A. King, H.F. Scaefer III, J. Chem. Phys. 110, 5224 (1999)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Tanemura, S., Kajino, K., Miao, L. et al. Fabrication and structural characterization of TiO nanoparticle soft-landed on substrate by the magnetron sputtering-gas aggregation method. Eur. Phys. J. D 34, 79–82 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00123-8
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00123-8