Research Paper

largeThermal Stability of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Films Fabricated by Filtered Cathodic Arc Technique

  • QIN Li-Zhao ,
  • ZHANG Xu ,
  • WU Zheng-Long ,
  • LIU An-Dong ,
  • LIAO Bin
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  • 1. Institute of Low Energy Nuclear Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    2. Analytical and Testing Center, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    3. Physics Department, Zunyi Normal College, Zunyi 563000, China

Received date: 2007-08-01

  Revised date: 2007-10-16

  Online published: 2008-07-20

Abstract

In order to investigate the thermal stability of the tetrahedral amorphous carbon(ta-C) films fabricated by filtered cathodic arc deposition technique, ta-C films were annealed in ambient air for 3h. The annealing temperature was 200℃, 400℃ and
500℃, respectively. XPS and Raman spectroscope were employed to characterize the changes of the microstructure of the films. The results show that the XPS C1s peaks and the Raman peaks of the samples annealed at 400℃ or below change little. When the annealing temperature
is 500℃, the shape of the XPS C1s peak doesn’t change too; the Raman ID/IG increases, the G-peak position doesn’t change and
the shape of Raman peak becomes more symmetry. This reveals that the sizes of the graphite clusters in the films increase and no obvious graphitization occurs during annealing process. All these indicate that the ta-C film fabricated by filtered cathodic vacuum arc technique has excellent thermal stability due to its hydrogen free and dense structure. Besides, parts of the films along the edge of the samples is evaporated by oxidation when the annealing temperature is up to 500℃.

Cite this article

QIN Li-Zhao , ZHANG Xu , WU Zheng-Long , LIU An-Dong , LIAO Bin . largeThermal Stability of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Films Fabricated by Filtered Cathodic Arc Technique[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2008 , 23(4) : 789 -793 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1077.2008.00789

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