High precision detection of change in intermediate range order of amorphous zirconia-doped tantala thin films due to annealing

Prasai, K. and Jiang, J. and Mishkin, A. and Shyam, B. and Angelova, S. and Birney, R. and Drabold, D. A. and Fazio, M. and Gustafson, E. K. and Harry, G. and Hoback, S. and Hough, J. and Lévesque, C. and MacLaren, I. and Markosyan, A. and Martin, I. W. and Menoni, C. S. and Murray, P. G. and Penn, S. and Reid, S. and Robie, R. and Rowan, S. and Schiettekatte, F. and Shink, R. and Turner, A. and Vajente, G. and Cheng, H-P. and Fejer, M. M. and Mehta, A. and Bassiri, R. (2019) High precision detection of change in intermediate range order of amorphous zirconia-doped tantala thin films due to annealing. Physical Review Letters, 123 (4). 045501. ISSN 1079-7114 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.045501)

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Abstract

Understanding the local atomic order in amorphous thin film coatings and how it relates to macroscopic performance factors, such as mechanical loss, provides an important path towards enabling the accelerated discovery and development of improved coatings. High precision x-ray scattering measurements of thin films of amorphous zirconia-doped tantala (ZrO2−Ta2O5) show systematic changes in intermediate range order (IRO) as a function of postdeposition heat treatment (annealing). Atomic modeling captures and explains these changes, and shows that the material has building blocks of metal-centered polyhedra and the effect of annealing is to alter the connections between the polyhedra. The observed changes in IRO are associated with a shift in the ratio of corner-sharing to edge-sharing polyhedra. These changes correlate with changes in mechanical loss upon annealing, and suggest that the mechanical loss can be reduced by developing a material with a designed ratio of corner-sharing to edge-sharing polyhedra.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:69013
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    26 July 2019
    Published
    23 July 2019
    Published Online
    25 June 2019
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:24 Jul 2019 13:36
    Last modified:18 Apr 2024 00:25
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/69013
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