Nano-sculptured Janus-like TiAg thin films obliquely deposited by GLAD co-sputtering for temperature sensing. 2018

Paulo Pedrosa, and Armando Ferreira, and Nicolas Martin, and Mohammad Arab Pour Yazdi, and Alain Billard, and Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, and Filipe Vaz
Institut FEMTO-ST, UMR 6174 CNRS, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 15B Avenue des Montboucons, F-25030 Besançon Cedex, France. Centro de Física, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal.

Inclined, zigzag and spiral TiAg films were prepared by glancing angle co-deposition, using two distinct Ti and Ag targets with a particle incident angle of 80° and Ag contents ranging from 20 to 75 at%. The effect of increasing Ag incorporation and columnar architecture change on the morphological, structural and electrical properties of the films was investigated. It is shown that inclined columnar features (β = 47°) with high porosity were obtained for 20 at% Ag, with the column angle sharply decreasing (β = 21°) for 50 at% Ag, and steeply increasing afterwards until β = 37° for the film with 75 at% Ag. The sputtered films exhibit a rather well-crystallized structure for Ag contents ≥50 at%, with a TiAg (111) preferential growth. No significant oxidation was detected in all films, except for the one with 20 at% Ag, after two 298-473-298 K temperature cycles in air. The calculated temperature coefficient of resistivity (TCR) values vary between 1.4 and 5.5 × 10-4 K-1. Nano-sculptured spiral films exhibit consistently higher resistivity (ρ = 1.5 × 10-6 Ω m) and TCR values (2.9 × 10-4 K-1) than the inclined one with the same Ag content (ρ = 1.2 × 10-6 Ω m and TCR = 2.0 × 10-4 K-1). No significant changes are observed in the zigzag films concerning these properties. The effective anisotropy A eff at 473 K changes from 1.3 to 1.7 for the inclined films. Spiral films exhibit an almost completely isotropic behavior with A eff = 1.1. Ag-rich TiAg core + shell Janus-like columns were obtained with increasing Ag concentrations.

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