Sputter Deposition of Silicon-Oxide Optical Coatings [electronic resource]

Fused silica and Si-Oₓ coatings are of interest for use under high flux conditions of laser light. Si-Oₓ coatings are sputter deposited from silicon and fused quartz targets using planar magnetrons operated in the rf mode with a variable working-gas mixture of Argon-Oxygen. A series of coatings are...

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Corporate Author: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Researcher)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Department of Energy ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy, 2002.
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Summary:Fused silica and Si-Oₓ coatings are of interest for use under high flux conditions of laser light. Si-Oₓ coatings are sputter deposited from silicon and fused quartz targets using planar magnetrons operated in the rf mode with a variable working-gas mixture of Argon-Oxygen. A series of coatings are prepared on optically flat, fused quartz substrates. Analysis of surface curvature reveals the deposition process conditions that minimize residual stress. Compressive stress levels that exceed 1.5 GPa can be reduced to less than 0.4 GPa for an optimum working gas pressure. Characterization using Rutherford backscattering and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy indicates that both the fused quartz and silicon targets can be used to sputter deposit coatings with the chemical bonding features of the fused-quartz substrate material.
Item Description:Published through SciTech Connect.
03/22/2002.
"ucrl-jc-147814"
International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego, CA (US), 04/22/2002--04/26/2002.
Jankowski, A F; Hayes, J P; Felter, T E; Evans, C; Nelson, A J.
Physical Description:PDF-FILE: 14; SIZE: 1.6 MBYTES pages.