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Analysis of Furnace Operational Parameters for Controllable Annealing of Thin Films

Authors:
Victor Ovchinnikov

Keywords: self-assembling; silver thin film; diffusion furnace; annealing

Abstract:
Annealing of thin silver films in different furnaces is studied. It is shown that identical parameters of thermal treatment do not guarantee reproducibility and annealing provides different results, e.g., shape and size of nanostructures, in different furnaces. To clarify the source of variation, morphology and reflectance spectra of the samples are analyzed. Additionally, numerical simulation of heating process in a diffusion furnace has been performed. It is demonstrated that uncontrollable heating and cooling of silver film itself leads to variation of annealing results.

Pages: 32 to 37

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: November 16, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3530

ISBN: 978-1-61208-380-3

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 16, 2014 to November 20, 2014