High-Throughput Micro-Combinatorial TEM Phase Mapping of the DC Magnetron Sputtered YTiO Thin Layer System.

Nanomaterials (Basel)

Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary.

Published: May 2024

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  • High-throughput methods are crucial in materials science for effectively characterizing thin films, particularly using micro-combinatorial techniques to analyze multicomponent systems in one sample.
  • This study focuses on the Y-Ti-O layer system, where variable YTiO samples were created via dual DC magnetron sputtering, revealing details about their structures and morphologies at different annealing temperatures (600-800 °C).
  • The findings highlight that the YTiO phase with a pyrochlore structure is formed at a lower temperature of 700 °C, which is significant as it’s lower than most traditional preparation methods, showcasing the advantages of using phase maps in the study of materials.

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High-throughput methods are extremely important in today's materials science, especially in the case of thin film characterization. The micro-combinatorial method enables the deposition and characterization of entire multicomponent thin film systems within a single sample. In this paper, we report the application of this method for the comprehensive TEM characterization of the Y-Ti-O layer system. Variable composition samples (YTiO) were prepared by dual DC magnetron sputtering, covering the entire (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) concentration range. The structure and morphology of phases formed in both as-deposited and annealed samples at 600, 700, and 800 °C were revealed as a function of Y-Ti composition (x). A comprehensive map showing the appropriate amorphous and crystalline phases, and their occurrence regions of the whole Y-Ti-O layer system, was revealed. Thanks to the applied method, it was shown with ease that at the given experimental conditions, the YTiO phase with a pyrochlore structure forms already at 700 °C without the TiO and YO by-phases, which is remarkably lower than the required temperature for most physical preparation methods, demonstrating the importance and benefits of creating phase maps in materials science and technology.

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