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JUNE 26 MONDAY MORNING<br />

RIVA-TF-MoM-OR.1 DETERMINATION OF THE HYDROGEN CONTENT IN<br />

DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON AND POLYMERIC THIN FILMS BY REFLECTION ELEC-<br />

TRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY. J. Rico, F. <strong>Yubero</strong>, J.P. Espinós, J. Cotrino, and<br />

A.R. González-Elipe. ICMSE (CSIC-USE) Amério Vespucio s/n, E-41092 Sevilla, Spain D. Garg.<br />

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 7201 Hamilton Boulevard, Allentown, PA 18195-1501, USA<br />

A new non-destructive method to determine hydrogen content in diamond-like carbon and polymeric<br />

thin film materials is developed. The method relies on quantification of the intensity of elastic peak<br />

stemming from the backscattering of electrons with the hydrogen atoms present in the samples as<br />

measured by reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy. Quantitative analysis of the hydrogen<br />

content at the surface of diamond like carbon thin films is achieved by using phenomenological sensitivity<br />

factors of hydrogen against the other atoms with reference to polymeric samples. The validity<br />

of the method is checked with elastic recoil detection measurements. A comparison is also made<br />

with data provided by infrared spectroscopy analysis of the same samples. We estimate that the error<br />

bar in the determination of hydrogen content in the samples is around 20% of the total hydrogen<br />

content.<br />

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