Modification of the amorphous carbon films by the ns-laser irradiation

Central European Journal of Physics - Tập 9 - Trang 1344-1350 - 2011
Alfonsas Grigonis1, Liutauras Marcinauskas1,2, Vinga Vinciunaite1, Gediminas Raciukaitis3
1Physics Department, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania
2Plasma Processing Laboratory, Lithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas, Lithuania
3Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania

Tóm tắt

The effect of a nanosecond laser irradiation of thin (60 and 145 nm) amorphous, diamond-like carbon films deposited on Si substrate by an ion beam deposition (IBD) from pure acetylene and acetylene/hydrogen (1:2) gas mixture was analyzed in this work. The films were irradiated with the infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) radiation of the nanosecond Nd:YAG lasers working at the first (1.16 eV) and the third (3.48 eV) harmonics, using a multi-shot regime. The IR laser irradiation stimulated a minor increase in the fraction of sp2 bonds, causing a slight decrease in the hardness of the films and initiated SiC formation. Irradiation with the UV laser caused the formation of carbides and increased hydrogenization of the Si substrate and the fraction of sp2 sites. Spalliation and ablation were observed at a higher energy density and with a large number of laser pulses per spot.

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