Changes in the Structure of the Multilayer Film Sb/B$_{4}$C Nanocomposition under Heating up to 360°C
I. A. Kopylets, E. M. Zubarev, V. V. Kondratenko, V. A. Sevryukova
National Technical University ‘Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute’, 21 Kyrpychov Str., 61002 Kharkiv, Ukraine
Received: 16.05.2016. Download: PDF
Periodic multilayer Sb/B$_{4}$C composition with amorphous 2.59 nm-thick antimony layers and 1.81 nm-thick B$_{4}$C layers, which is a promising coating for X-ray optics, is made and characterized. Structure changes of the composition under heating up to 360°C are investigated using X-ray diffractometry and electron microscopy. As found, the thin Sb layers remain in the amorphous state in the multilayer Sb/B$_{4}$C composition up to 250°C. At a temperature of 290C, the antimony layers are crystallized. This leads to increasing of density of the antimony layers and to reduction of multilayer composition period by 13.8%. The antimony crystallization is accompanied by the formation of antimony lenses, which distort and destroy the multilayer coating.
Key words: antimony, boron carbide, amorphous state, multilayer composition, nanoscale layers, X-ray diffraction.
URL: http://mfint.imp.kiev.ua/en/abstract/v38/i07/0911.html
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/mfint.38.07.0911
PACS: 07.85.Fv, 61.05.cm, 61.05.cp, 68.35.Ct, 68.55.J-, 68.60.Dv, 68.65.Ac
Citation: I. A. Kopylets, E. M. Zubarev, V. V. Kondratenko, and V. A. Sevryukova, Changes in the Structure of the Multilayer Film Sb/B$_{4}$C Nanocomposition under Heating up to 360°C, Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 38, No. 7: 911—921 (2016) (in Ukrainian)