TY - JOUR
T1 - Ion beam studies on reactive DC sputtered manganese doped indium tin oxide thin films
AU - Sarath Kumar, S. R.
AU - Malar, P.
AU - Osipowicz, Thomas
AU - Banerjee, S. S.
AU - Kasiviswanathan, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
One of the authors, S.R. Sarath Kumar, thanks the financial assistance provided by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India in the form of a Senior Research Fellowship.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - Indium based transparent conducting oxides doped with magnetic elements have been studied intensively in recent years with a view to develop novel ferromagnetic semiconductors for spin-based electronics. In the present work, we have grown manganese doped indium tin oxide (Mn:ITO) thin films, onto Si and Si/SiO2 substrates by DC reactive sputtering of a composite target containing indium-tin alloy and manganese, in a gas mixture of oxygen and argon. Glancing angle X-ray diffraction (GXRD) studies reveal the polycrystalline nature of the films. Magnetic measurements carried out using vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) suggest that the films are ferromagnetic at room temperature, with a saturation magnetization of ∼22.8 emu/cm3. The atomic percentages of In, Sn, Mn and O, as estimated using Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) are 37.0, 4.0, 1.6 and 57.4, respectively. RBS measurements reveal that the interface of the films with Si substrate has a ∼30 nm thick intermediate layer. This layer consists of oxygen, silicon, indium, tin and manganese, in the ratio 1:0.56:0.21:0.07:0.03, indicative of diffusion of elements across the interface. The films on Si/SiO2, on the other hand, have a sharp interface.
AB - Indium based transparent conducting oxides doped with magnetic elements have been studied intensively in recent years with a view to develop novel ferromagnetic semiconductors for spin-based electronics. In the present work, we have grown manganese doped indium tin oxide (Mn:ITO) thin films, onto Si and Si/SiO2 substrates by DC reactive sputtering of a composite target containing indium-tin alloy and manganese, in a gas mixture of oxygen and argon. Glancing angle X-ray diffraction (GXRD) studies reveal the polycrystalline nature of the films. Magnetic measurements carried out using vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) suggest that the films are ferromagnetic at room temperature, with a saturation magnetization of ∼22.8 emu/cm3. The atomic percentages of In, Sn, Mn and O, as estimated using Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) are 37.0, 4.0, 1.6 and 57.4, respectively. RBS measurements reveal that the interface of the films with Si substrate has a ∼30 nm thick intermediate layer. This layer consists of oxygen, silicon, indium, tin and manganese, in the ratio 1:0.56:0.21:0.07:0.03, indicative of diffusion of elements across the interface. The films on Si/SiO2, on the other hand, have a sharp interface.
KW - DMS
KW - Interface
KW - TCO
KW - Thin films
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nimb.2007.12.075
DO - 10.1016/j.nimb.2007.12.075
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:43049163794
SN - 0168-583X
VL - 266
SP - 1421
EP - 1424
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
IS - 8
ER -