Influence of gas pressure and cathode composition on ion energy distributions in filtered cathodic vacuum arcs

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  • M. M. M. Bilek
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We report measurements of ion energy distributions of ionized species in titanium and aluminium filtered cathodic vacuum arcs operating in oxygen and nitrogen gas atmospheres. The ion energy distributions were recorded using a Hiden mass selected ion energy analyzer. The results show that a significant reduction in ion energies and a change in the shape of ion energy distributions occurs as the gas pressure is increased. The degree of the energy reduction depends on both the type of gas and the metal ions making up the arc plasma. This has important implications for the deposition of thin films, such as titanium nitride, commonly produced using vacuum arcs in reactive gas atmospheres. The ion energy distributions of the cathode ion species in the absence of background gas and at low gas pressures are well fitted by shifted Maxwellian distributions. As the gas pressure rises the distributions consist of a progressively increasing thermalized Maxwellian component and a decreasing shifted Maxwellian. An investigation of energy distributions of species in arcs triggered on alloyed cathodes showed that the relative abundance of ions of different charge states and their energy distributions varied as alloy metals were introduced. This indicates that the electron temperature in the cathode spot and hence the cathode spot dynamics is affected by the presence of the alloy metal. © 1998 American Institute of Physics. @S0021-8979~98!02406-2#

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تاریخ انتشار 1998