%0 Generic %1 Jose2012Optical %A Jose, Feby %A Ramaseshan, R. %A Sundari, S. Tripura %A Dash, S. %A Kiran, M. S. R. N. %A Tyagi, A. K. %A Ramamurty, U. %D 2012 %K fabrication aluminum-nitride %T Optical and Nanomechanical characterization of highly a-axis oriented AlN films deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5299 %X This paper reports optical and nanomechanical properties of seldom studied highly a-axis oriented AlN thin films for the first time. These films were deposited by reactive DC magnetron sputtering technique at an optimal target to substrate distance of 180 mm. Bragg-Brentano geometry X-ray and rocking curve (FWHM = 52 arcsec) studies confirmed the preferred orientation. Spectroscopic ellipsometry revealed that these films exhibit a refractive index of 1.93 at a wavelength of 546 nm. The hardness and elastic modulus of these films were 17 GPa and 190 GPa, respectively. The mechanical properties obtained here are much higher than the earlier reported and therefore can be useful as protective coating in thermo printing devices, piezoelectric films in bulk acoustic wave resonators.

@misc{Jose2012Optical, abstract = {{This paper reports optical and nanomechanical properties of seldom studied highly a-axis oriented AlN thin films for the first time. These films were deposited by reactive DC magnetron sputtering technique at an optimal target to substrate distance of 180 mm. Bragg-Brentano geometry X-ray and rocking curve (FWHM = 52 arcsec) studies confirmed the preferred orientation. Spectroscopic ellipsometry revealed that these films exhibit a refractive index of 1.93 at a wavelength of 546 nm. The hardness and elastic modulus of these films were 17 GPa and 190 GPa, respectively. The mechanical properties obtained here are much higher than the earlier reported and therefore can be useful as protective coating in thermo printing devices, piezoelectric films in bulk acoustic wave resonators.}}, added-at = {2013-09-09T23:59:35.000+0200}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {Jose, Feby and Ramaseshan, R. and Sundari, S. Tripura and Dash, S. and Kiran, M. S. R. N. and Tyagi, A. K. and Ramamurty, U.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b42e5fe94d1ab8af3173ac31aae2615c/jacksankey}, citeulike-article-id = {11624797}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5299}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.5299}, day = 19, eprint = {1208.5299}, interhash = {036e7194f397be1dcb59e32ce47eafb1}, intrahash = {b42e5fe94d1ab8af3173ac31aae2615c}, keywords = {fabrication aluminum-nitride}, month = sep, posted-at = {2012-11-06 22:38:30}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2013-10-08T14:52:14.000+0200}, title = {{Optical and Nanomechanical characterization of highly a-axis oriented AlN films deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5299}, year = 2012 }