FORMATION OF ORDERED ARRAYS OF METAL-CLUSTERS BY ANNEALING OF NM-PERIOD METAL-CARBON MULTILAYER FILMS

Authors
SEWING A GORBUNOV AA POMPE W DIETSCH R MAI H KRAWIETZ R WEHNER B
Citation
A. Sewing et al., FORMATION OF ORDERED ARRAYS OF METAL-CLUSTERS BY ANNEALING OF NM-PERIOD METAL-CARBON MULTILAYER FILMS, Nanostructured materials, 6(5-8), 1995, pp. 695-698
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Material Science
Journal title
Nanostructured materials → ACNP
ISSN journal
09659773
Volume
6
Issue
5-8
Year of publication
1995
Pages
695 - 698
Database
ISI
SICI code
0965-9773(1995)6:5-8<695:FOOAOM>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
The excess of Gibbs free energy stored in the initial state of metal/c arbon multilayer films produced by pulsed laser deposition is used to induce phase transitions by thermal activation. The clustering of the nickel layers in Ni/C multilayers caused by annealing is reported as a result of x-ray diffraction and reflectivity measurements and TEM obs ervations. A theoretical approach to the problem of phase separation a nd transformation in superthin films is given.