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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 140, Issue 1, Pages 89-96Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2013.02.072
Keywords
Oxides; Nanostructures; Chemical vapour deposition (CVD); Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS)
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- Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands program EOS (Energy Research Subsidy), NEO (New Energy Research) [NEOT01017]
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We present the synthesis of tungsten oxide (WO3-x) thin films consisting of layers of varying oxygen content. Configurations of layered thin films comprised of W, W/WO3-x, WO3/W and WO3/W/WO3-x are obtained in a single continuous hot-wire chemical vapor deposition process using only ambient air and hydrogen. The air oxidizes resistively heated tungsten filaments and produces the tungsten oxide species, which deposit on a substrate and are subsequently reduced by the hydrogen. The reduction of tungsten oxides to oxides of lower oxygen content (suboxides) depends on the local water vapor pressure and temperature. In this work, the substrate temperature is either below 250 degrees C or is kept at 750 degrees C. A number of films are synthesized using a combined air/hydrogen flow at various total process pressures. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry is employed to measure the number of tungsten and oxygen atoms deposited, revealing the average atomic compositions and the oxygen profiles of the films. High-resolution scanning electron microscopy is performed to measure the physical thicknesses and display the internal morphologies of the films. The chemical structure and crystallinity are investigated with Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, respectively. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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