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2016 (Engelska)Ingår i: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ISSN 1932-7447, E-ISSN 1932-7455, Vol. 120, nr 38, s. 21990-21997Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]
Boron–carbon (BxC) thin films are potential neutron converting layers for 10B-based neutron detectors. However, as common material choices for such detectors do not tolerate temperatures above 500 °C, a low temperature deposition route is required. Here, we study trimethylboron B(CH3)3 (TMB) as a single-source precursor for the deposition of BxC thin films by plasma CVD using Ar plasma. The effect of plasma power, TMB/Ar flow ratio and total pressure, on the film composition, morphology, chemical bonding, and microstructures are investigated. Dense and boron-rich films (B/C = 1.9) are achieved at high TMB flow under a low total pressure and high plasma power, which rendered an approximate substrate temperature of ∼300 °C. Films mainly contain B–C bonds with the presence of B–O and C–C, which is attributed to be the origin of formed amorphous carbon in the films. The high H content (15 ± 5 at. %) is almost independent of deposition parameters and contributed to lower the film density (2.16 g/cm3). The plasma compositional analysis shows that the TMB molecule decomposes to mainly atomic H, C2, BH, and CH. A plasma chemical model for the decomposition of TMB with BH and CH as the plausible film depositing species in the plasma is proposed.
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American Chemical Society (ACS), 2016
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urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-132478 (URN)10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06529 (DOI)000384626800097 ()
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Funding Agencies|European Spallation Source ERIC; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; BrightnESS project (Horizon) [676548]; Carl Tryggers Foundation for Scientific Research [CTS 14:431]
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