Optical properties of Ar ions irradiated nanocrystalline ZrC and ZrN thin films release_ga75bmqnhbcjrcny6ij7hwq34a

by C. Martin, K.H. Miller, H. Makino, D. Craciun, D. Simeone, V. Craciun

Published in Journal of Nuclear Materials by Elsevier BV.

2017   Volume 488, p16-21

Abstract

Thin nanocrystalline ZrC and ZrN films (<400 nm), grown on (100) Si substrates at a substrate temperature of 500 °C by the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique, were irradiated by 800 keV Ar ion irradiation with fluences from 1 × 1014 at/cm2 up to 2 × 1015 at/cm2. Optical reflectance data, acquired from as-deposited and irradiated films, in the range of 500 - 50000 cm-1 (0.06 - 6 eV), was used to assess the effect of irradiation on the optical and electronic properties. Both in ZrC and ZrN films we observed that irradiation affects the optical properties of the films mostly at low frequencies, which is dominated by the free carriers response. In both materials, we found a significant reduction in the free carriers scattering rate, i.e. possible increase in mobility, at higher irradiation flux. This is consistent with our previous findings that irradiation affects the crystallite size and the micro-strain, but it does not induce major structural changes.
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