Metastable phases in Co-Ag system formed by ion beam assisted deposition at the glancing ion incidence

  • F. Zeng*
  • , R. L. Zong
  • , Y. L. Gu
  • , F. Lv
  • , F. Pan
  • , J. Wang
  • , W. S. Yan
  • , B. He
  • , Y. N. Xie
  • , T. Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Co metastable structures are formed in Co-Ag alloy films with the aid of glancing incident ions during deposition. The structures of Co are characterized by X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy at the Co K-edge. The results indicate that two kinds of Co phases coexist in every film. One is α-Co or β-Co and the other is named fcc-II with a = 4.06 Å. It is thought that the stress between Co and Ag clusters induces the formation of β-Co and the fcc-II phase. The role of glancing incident ions is to trigger a collision cascade on the surface and to facilitate both thermodynamics and kinetics aspects of cluster mixing.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)547-552
Number of pages6
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Volume260
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Ion beam processing
  • Metastable phases
  • XANES

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