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Uses
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Types of sputter deposition
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Structure and morphology
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Overview
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Overview
- Physical vapor deposition
- Thin film
- Sputtering
- Silicon
- Wafer Wafer (electronics)
- Ion
- EV Electronvolt
- Ionized Ionization
- Random walk
- Inert gas
- Argon
- Atomic weight
- Neon
- Krypton
- Xenon
Uses
- Hard disks Hard disk drive
- Semiconductor
- Integrated circuit
- Antireflection coatings Antireflection coating
- Optical Optics
- Thin-film transistors Thin-film transistor
- Emissivity
- Glass
- Silver
- Oxides Oxide
- Zinc oxide
- Tin oxide
- Titanium dioxide
- Titanium nitride
- Waveguides
- Photovoltaic
- IMEC
- Superconducting
- Qubits Qubit
- Coherence times Coherence time
- Μs Microsecond
- Average
- CMOS
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Gold
- Palladium
- X-ray spectroscopy
Comparison with other deposition methods
- Knudsen cell
- Evaporated Evaporation (deposition)
- Lift-off Lift-off (microtechnology)
- Pulsed laser deposition
- Laser
Types of sputter deposition
- Magnetron
- Plasma densities Plasma (physics)
- 13.56 MHz ISM band
- Impedance matching
- Ion source
- Hot filament ionization gauge
- Kaufman Harold R. Kaufman
- Disk drives Hard drive
- UHV Ultra high vacuum
- Carbon
- Diamond-like Diamond
- NASA
- Turbine
- Tetrahedral amorphous carbon Diamond-like carbon
- Hard disk
- Substrate Substrate (materials science)
- Hollow cathode effect
- Hollow cathode lamps
- Paschen's law
Structure and morphology
- Sublimation Sublimation (chemistry)
- Mean free path
- Microstructure
- Texture Texture (crystalline)
- Residual stress
- Plastic deformation
- Shot peening
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Nodes79
Edges78
Triples74
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025316
Components1
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Sputter deposition
Top relations
related to Structure and morphology · 15
Sputter deposition → DC, Demchishin, Denoting, In, It, Ja, Ji, Ji/Ja, Movchan, Next, Since, Td, The, Thornton, Ti
has method · 13
Sputter deposition → Advanced, Also, An, Knudsen, Pulsed, Role, Some, Sputter, Sputtered, Sputtering, The, This, Thus
related to Further reading · 12
Sputter deposition → AVS Education Committee Book, Handbook, ISBN, Kiyotaka Wasa, MattoxWilliam, Noyes Publications, Series, Shigeru Hayakawa, The Foundations, Vacuum Coating Technology, Vol, Westwood
related to Uses · 10
Sputter deposition → Another, Because, CDs, CrOx, DVDs, Hard, One, Sputtering, The, Thin
related to Sputter coating · 6
Sputter deposition → Au/Pd, For, SEM, Sputter, While, X-ray
is a · 1
Sputter deposition → physical vapor deposition
related to High-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) · 1
Sputter deposition → HiPIMS
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Important terminology
sputtering deposition sputter gas target film used process substrate also sputtered ions reactive source atoms pressure coating thin material chamber
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sputter deposition | is a | physical vapor deposition | 0.90 | text |
| argon | instance of | The entire range from high-energy ballistic impact to low-energy thermalized motion is accessible by changing the background gas pressure.The sputtering gas is often an inert gas | 0.80 | text |
| zinc oxide | instance of | The coating is a multilayer containing silver and metal oxides | 0.80 | text |
| tin oxide | instance of | The coating is a multilayer containing silver and metal oxides | 0.80 | text |
| or titanium dioxide | instance of | The coating is a multilayer containing silver and metal oxides | 0.80 | text |
| sputtering deposition | instance of | using CMOS-compatible fabrication techniques | 0.80 | text |
| subtractive etch.Sputter coatingSputter coating in scanning electron microscopy is a sputter deposition process | instance of | using CMOS-compatible fabrication techniques | 0.80 | text |
| oxygen | instance of | and are compatible with reactive gases | 0.80 | text |
| epitaxial growth are possible.Some disadvantages of the sputtering process are that the process is more difficult to combine with a lift-off for structuring the film | instance of | Advanced processes | 0.80 | text |
| argon | instance of | The sputter gas is typically an inert gas | 0.80 | text |
| oxygen or nitrogen | instance of | The chemical reaction that the particles undergo is with a reactive gas introduced into the sputtering chamber | 0.80 | text |
| enabling the production of oxide | instance of | The chemical reaction that the particles undergo is with a reactive gas introduced into the sputtering chamber | 0.80 | text |
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