{"title":"Ion-Assisted Sputter Deposition of Mo-Si Multilayers","authors":"S. Vernon, D. Stearns, R. S. Rosen","doi":"10.1364/pxrayms.1992.md4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pxrayms.1992.md4","url":null,"abstract":"Mo-Si multilayer (ML) structures fabricated using DC magnetron sputtering in an Ar plasma show a transition from layer to columnar growth as the deposition pressure is increased above ~1 mTorr. The dominant effect of the increased deposition pressure is the increased thermalization of Ar neutrals, reflected in charge exhange collisions with the sputtering target, striking the substrate surface. At high deposition pressure there is less energy deposited at the substrate surface which, in turn, modifies the adatom mobility. These effects markedly impact the layer morphology. The layers are observed to have significantly increased roughness at higher deposition pressures. Consequently, the x-ray optical properties of the ML coatings are strongly effected. The measured normal incidence reflectivity at 130 Å decreases from ~60% to 14% as the deposition pressure is raised from 2.5 to 10 mTorr [1].","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133037732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growth and Epitaxy of Materials for Multilayer X-ray Optics","authors":"J. Slaughter, P. Kearney, J. A. Ruffner, C. Falco","doi":"10.1364/pxrayms.1992.wa2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pxrayms.1992.wa2","url":null,"abstract":"New material pairs are needed to provide useful mirrors at wavelengths where currently none exist, and to improve on performance at wavelengths where there are existing mirrors. In this paper we discuss our studies of selected new materials. Our studies take a surface analysis approach toward characterizing reactions at interfaces, the sharpness of interfaces, and the effect of the thin film growth mode on roughness. The studies were carried out in molecular beam epitaxy systems for two reasons: to study epitaxial growth of promising materials as a step toward single-crystal multilayer mirrors, and to exploit the powerful analytical tools available for surface analysis in a UHV environment. Growth of Be-, and B-based materials pairs have been studied with a wide variety of techniques including Auger, XPS, RHEED, LEED, and STM with the goal of determining interface structure, overlayer morphology, and crystal structure.","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"50 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129124374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Clemens, A. Payne, T. Hufnagel, J. Bain, S. Brennan
{"title":"In-Situ Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction During Sputter Deposition","authors":"B. Clemens, A. Payne, T. Hufnagel, J. Bain, S. Brennan","doi":"10.1364/pxrayms.1992.wa4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pxrayms.1992.wa4","url":null,"abstract":"Many aspects of thin film growth can be studied most directly using in-situ techniques. These include a host of critical phenomena which are only observed for very thin layers and are no longer available for study if the film is grown to bulk levels. Although sputter deposition is a very widely used deposition technique both in research and industry, in-situ studies of film growth during sputter deposition are rare. This is primarily because the sputtering gas precludes the use of conventional electron diffraction techniques. Photon based diffraction techniques, on the other hand, are immune to the deleterious effects of the argon sputtering gas and offer a powerful method for investigating film structure provided a source of sufficient brightness is used. We recently performed experiments in which grazing incidence x-ray scattering (GIXS)[1] using synchrotron radiation was implemented in-situ to study film growth by sputter deposition . A special UHV deposition chamber was developed with appropriate x-ray windows and precision sample positioning mechanisms needed in performing a diffraction experiment [2]. During the initial test of this new technique and apparatus, we examined two metal/metal systems: gadolinium/cobalt and molybdenum/nickel.","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124107898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Nguyen, M. O'Keefe, R. Kilaas, R. Gronsky, J. Kortright
{"title":"Effects of Fresnel Fringes on TEM Images of Interfaces in X-Ray Multilayers","authors":"T. Nguyen, M. O'Keefe, R. Kilaas, R. Gronsky, J. Kortright","doi":"10.1364/pxrayms.1992.tub2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pxrayms.1992.tub2","url":null,"abstract":"Cross-sectional High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM) has been widely used to examine the structure and morphology at multilayer interfaces at an atomic scale. Assessment of the interfacial structures quantitatively from these TEM images however is difficult due to the Fresnel fringe effects, which produce different apparent structures with defocus values in the images. These fringes result from the electrons experiencing an abrupt change in the scattering potential parallel to the electron beam path. Imaging of multilayers in cross-section, in which the electrons travel parallel to the interfaces between the two layer materials, always results in such fringes. X-ray multilayers having alternating layers of very different atomic numbers or scattering powers are more prone to these fringes than the heterostructures having less contrast layers. The visibility of the fringes increases with increasing defocus away from the minimum contrast, while optimum resolution in bright-field imaging is obtained at the Scherzer defocus, which is about 100 nm from the minimum contrast for most high resolution microscopes. Fresnel fringes are thus present when imaging at optimum defocus. The effects of these fringes have been commonly overlooked in efforts of making quantitative interpretation of interfacial profiles. They however have also been employed to characterize the structures and compositional roughness at interfaces.1-3 In this report, we present the observations of the Fresnel fringes in nanometer period Mo/Si, W/C, and WC/C multilayers in through-focus-series TEM images. Calculation of the Fresnel fringes of a Mo/Si multilayer using charge density approximation is used to illustrate the characteristics of the fringes from different interfacial structures.","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"278 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134401592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation of Mixing at Mo/Si Interfaces","authors":"D. B. Boercker, W. Morgan","doi":"10.1364/pxrayms.1992.md5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pxrayms.1992.md5","url":null,"abstract":"Soft x-ray projection lithography is a rapidly emerging technology which will have enormous impact on the microelectronics industry, by providing faithful image reduction to a minimum feature size below 1000Å.1 X-ray reduction cameras have already been designed and tested,2,3 but the successful development of this new technology will depend heavily upon the production of efficient, durable x-ray optics1.","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129300502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stability Of Metallic Superlattices","authors":"P. Turchi, M. Sluiter","doi":"10.1364/pxrayms.1992.wa5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pxrayms.1992.wa5","url":null,"abstract":"With the constant progress made in designing and manufacturing materials with composition modulation in one dimension on an atomic scale [1], artificial superlattices have opened up new opportunities to study both theoretically and experimentally a wide range of properties. This new class of materials consist of a sandwich of layers of different species or mixtures thereof, and with the development of atom by atom deposition techniques, composition, layer repeat period, growth orientation and chemical order may be controlled. Such atomic engineering has led to the discovery of new phenomena such as the supermodulus effect [2], giant magneto-resistance effect [3] and also complex phenomena at or near interfaces such as solid state amorphization [4]. Moreover, unusual properties are expected in one dimensional quasiperiodic multilayers [5].","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115465727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Joensen, P. Gorenstein, P. Høghøj, F. Christensen
{"title":"X-ray Supermirrors: Novel multilayer structures for broad band hard X-ray applications","authors":"K. Joensen, P. Gorenstein, P. Høghøj, F. Christensen","doi":"10.1364/pxrayms.1994.tha.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pxrayms.1994.tha.3","url":null,"abstract":"With the increased availability of hard X-ray (≥ 20 keV) synchrotron sources and a concurrent wish for hard X-ray telescopes. the need for hard X-ray optics has become considerable. For some applications crystals and periodic multilayers are desirable; for others the bandwidth of these may be too narrow. A wider bandwidth can be obtained by using total reflection from heavy elements. This approach. however, is impractical for harder X-rays since it is limited by the inverse proportionality between the critical angle of total reflection and the energy. One solution to this broad-band reflection problem may be the supermirror: a multilayer structure where the bi-layer thickness is gradually changed from top to bottom. In such a structure radiation with different wavelengths will have the criteria for constructive interference fulfilled at different depths in the multilayer. If the bi-layer thicknesses are changed sufficiently slowly. simultaneous diffraction of a continuum of X-ray energies can be obtained. The multilayered supermirror was originally designed for neutron applications1 such as increasing the throughput of guide-tubes. For neutrons, where absorption is extremely low for most materials. reflectivities up to95 can be obtained in a continuous band up to 3 times the critical angle or energy2. For X-rays. the absorption is considerably larger and this strongly influences the performance of the X-ray supermirror.","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115487235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization of Growth Conditions of Vapor Deposited Mo/Si Multilayers","authors":"M. Stearns, C. Chang, D. Stearns","doi":"10.1063/1.350735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.350735","url":null,"abstract":"The dependence of the layer structure and interfaces of e-beam deposited Mo/Si multilayers (ML) on the growth conditions has been studied. The substrate temperature was varied over a range of 300-600°K at deposition rates of 1 and 3 Å/sec. The structure of the ML was determined using small-angle x-ray scattering, large-angle x-ray scattering, and cross-sectional high-resolution electron microscopy. The variation of the normal incidence reflectivity was measured as a function of soft x-ray wavelength using synchrotron radiation. We found that the ML structure has a strong dependence on the substrate temperature and a lesser dependence on the deposition rate. ML grown at a substrate temperature of 300°K have Mo layers composed of small crystallites and exhibit significant short wavelength roughness. The lateral extent of the Mo crystallites increases and the interfacial roughness decreases with increasing substrate temperature up to 525-550°K. We attribute the larger Mo crystallites, improved texture and suppression of columnar growth observed at higher substrate temperatures to the increased surface mobility of the adatoms. The optimum conditions to obtain smooth layers by e-beam deposition were found to be a substrate temperature of ~525°K and a deposition rate of ~1 Å/sec. Thus to a great extent the smaller adatom energies of e-beam deposition can be compensated for by increasing the substrate temperature. Above TS~575°K interdiffusion is observed to significantly degrade the ML structure.","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115608922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Glancing-Incidence X-ray Analysis of multilayer structures","authors":"D. D. de Boer, A. Leenaers, W. van den Hoogenhof","doi":"10.1364/pxrayms.1994.tua.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pxrayms.1994.tua.2","url":null,"abstract":"Glancing-incidence x-ray analysis (GIXA) is a combination of x-ray reflectivity and angle-dependent x-ray fluorescence (AD-XRF) in one instrument [1]. This method enables to obtain the compositional depth profile of layered materials, exploiting x-ray standing waves (XSW) [2]. With the same set-up, also diffuse scattering can be measured, yielding information on the lateral extent of interface roughness [3, 4, 5]. It is well known that specular reflectivity and AD-XRF depend on the root-mean square (r.m.s.) value of the interface roughness. As we will discuss below, they are affected by its lateral extent as well. First, however, we give some examples to show how XSW effects can be exploited for depth profiling of multilayers.","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127124835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studies of multi-layers for short period X-ray mirrors","authors":"R. Somekh, M. M. Hasan","doi":"10.1364/pxrayms.1994.ma.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pxrayms.1994.ma.3","url":null,"abstract":"The production of mirrors to operate at very short X-ray wavelengths (2-5 nm) still provides a challenge for materials scientists. The need for smooth interfaces whilst maintaining a considerable compositional sharpness is inherently problematic, since the former requires layers which are in some way compatible and by implication mutually soluble, whilst the latter is more likely to be achieved when two elements are immiscible.","PeriodicalId":164371,"journal":{"name":"Physics of X-Ray Multilayer Structures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124814529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}