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2009-09-30 11:45
Characterization of ZnO Polycrystalline Films on Silica Glass by the LFB Ultrasonic Material Characterization System Takanori Kondo, Sho Yoshida, Yuusuke Kourai, Yuji Ohashi, Mototaka Arakawa, Jun-ichi Kushibiki (Tohoku Univ.), Satoshi Fujii (SEIKO EPSON) US2009-53 |
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We evaluated several ZnO polycrystalline films with different thicknesses fabricated on silica glass substrates by DC sputtering and RF magnetron sputtering methods using a line-focus-beam ultrasonic material characterization (LFB-UMC) system. We measured fH (product of frequency f and film thickness H) dependences of leaky surface acoustic wave (LSAW) velocities from 100 to 300 MHz for each ZnO-film specimen. The measured results exhibited an fH dependence similar to the calculated ones. The LSAW velocities decreased from 3424 m/s for silica glass to 2672 m/s for Z-cut ZnO single crystal as fH increased. The measured LSAW velocities became lower than the calculated ones: decreasing of 27.2 m/s for the RF-ZnO film and 42.6 m/s for the DC-ZnO film from a calculated value of 2672.1 m/s at fH=1680 Hz·m. These velocity decreases were explained due to decreases in elastic constant associated with ZnO polycrystalline film structure: about 6% for the DC-ZnO film and about 3% for the RF-ZnO film. We also measured LSAW velocity distributions at 225 MHz and obtained a large velocity variation of about 22 m/s for a 4-mm-thick DC-ZnO film specimen. We estimated film thickness distributions from the fH dependence of LSAW velocities, resulting in about 0.66 µm for the DC-ZnO film and about 0.04 µm for the RF-ZnO film. We demonstrated that our ultrasonic method is useful for evaluating significant difference in acoustic properties between two ZnO films with different c-axis orientations fabricated by different sputtering methods. |
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ZnO polycrystalline film / DC sputtering method / RF magnetron sputtering method / line-focus-beam ultrasonic material characterization system / leaky surface acoustic wave velocity / / / |
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IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 213, US2009-53, pp. 89-94, Sept. 2009. |
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US2009-53 |
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2009-09-22 (US) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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