Published July 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Metastable phases in Co-Ag system formed by ion beam assisted deposition at the glancing ion incidence

  • 1. Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)
  • 2. National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Heifei 230029 (China)
  • 3. Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100039 (China)

Description

Co metastable structures are formed in Co-Ag alloy films with the aid of glancing incident ions during deposition. The structures of Co are characterized by X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy at the Co K-edge. The results indicate that two kinds of Co phases coexist in every film. One is α-Co or β-Co and the other is named fcc-II with a = 4.06 A. It is thought that the stress between Co and Ag clusters induces the formation of β-Co and the fcc-II phase. The role of glancing incident ions is to trigger a collision cascade on the surface and to facilitate both thermodynamics and kinetics aspects of cluster mixing

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nimb.2007.03.078;
PII
S0168-583X(07)00709-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Journal Volume
260
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 547-552
ISSN
0168-583X
CODEN
NIMBEU

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Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.