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Publication
Journal of Applied Physics
Paper
Gas incorporation into sputtered films
Abstract
The concentration of argon in sputtered nickel films has been obtained as a function of the film-growth temperature, the discharge pressure, and of the energy (bias voltage) with which the argon ions bombard the growing film. The concentrations vary from about 10-1 argon atoms/Ni atom to 10 -4 argon atoms/Ni atom, depending upon the conditions during film growth. The incorporation of both argon and nitrogen into nickel films is interpreted on the basis of results previously obtained from sorption studies in a more-idealized system on a pre-existing nickel surface. © 1967 The American Institute of Physics.