The oxidation kinetics of reactively sputtered amorphous Tas&Si;,NSe thin films are studied in dry and wet ambient in the temperature range of 650-850 "C by backscattering spectrometry, Dektak profilometer, and x-ray diffraction analyses. The dry oxidation is. well described by a parabolic time dependence which corresponds to a process controlled by the diffusion of the oxidant in the oxide. The growth of the oxide in wet ambient is initially very rapid and then proceeds linearly which means that the process is reaction limited. Both oxidation rates are thermally activated. The activation energies are 2.0 eV for dry and 1.4 eV for wet ambient. The pre-exponential factors are 0.17 x lOI A2/min and 7.4~ IO8 urnin, respectively. Both the dry and wet oxidation of the amorphous ternary Tas6Si1iNs0 film result in the formation of an x-ray amorphous Tai4Sis.,0s, layer.
Zirconia and yttria films were sputter deposited onto unheated fused silica substrates using a metal target and rare gas-oxygen discharges. Double-beam spectrophotometry was used to measure the transmission and reflection as a function of incident photon energy, E, from which the absorption coefficient, a@), was calculated. An indirect interband transition at Ei = 4.70 eV and two direct interband transitions at Egl = 5.17 eV and Eg2 = 5.93 eV occur in monoclinic zirconia. Two direct interband transitions at Egl = 5.07 eV and E , = 5.73 eV occur in cubic yttria. The absorption edge structure is modified when unusual phases, such as tetragonal zirconia, and zirconia and yttria with no longrange crystallographic order, are present. [
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