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intercalation layer between the GML and the Si-terminated SiC substrate<br />

when the system is annealed at 800ºC for 5 min [1]. Within the GML, a pdoping<br />

effect is observed. Furthermore, it has been reported that by<br />

controlling the Au coverage level GMLs ranging from strongly n-doped to<br />

weakly p-doped can be formed [2]. However, it is still a problem to achieve<br />

a strongly p-doped GML by intercalation of an Au layer.<br />

Using first principles calculations, we study the effect of Au intercalation<br />

on the electronic properties of epitaxial graphene grown on SiC substrates<br />

[3]. A GML on SiC restores the shape of the pristine graphene dispersion,<br />

where doping levels between strongly n-doped and weakly p-doped can be<br />

achieved by altering the Au coverage. In addition, we predict that Au<br />

intercala-tion between the two C layers of bilayer graphene grown on SiC<br />

makes it possible to achieve a strongly p-doped graphene state, where the pdoping<br />

is controlled the Au coverage.<br />

References:<br />

[1] B. Premlal, M. Cranney, F. Vonau, D. Aubel, D. Casterman, M. M. De<br />

Souza, and L. Simon, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 263115 (2009).<br />

[2] I. Gierz, T. Suzuki, R. T. Weitz, D. S. Lee, B. Krauss, C. Riedl, U.<br />

Starke, H. Hochst, J. H. Smet, C. R. Ast, and K. Kern, Phys. Rev. B 81,<br />

235408 (2010).<br />

[3] Y. C. Cheng and U. Schwingenschlögl, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 193304<br />

(2010).<br />

TSP-2 Nitrogen Introduced at Interface to Improve Resistance<br />

Switching Characteristics with SiGeOx RRAM Device, Y.E. Syu<br />

(syuyongen@gmail.com), National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, G.W.<br />

Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan<br />

In this study, the SiGeOx film was taken as the resistive switching layer in<br />

Pt/SiGeOx/TiN memory cells because germanium and silicon are extremely<br />

compatible with the prevalent complementary metal oxide semiconductor<br />

(CMOS) process . To enhance memory switching parameters, a compatible<br />

SiGeON layer between SiGeOx and TiN is proposed to control the<br />

disruption length of filaments. Compared with Pt/SiGeOx/TiN memory<br />

cells, the proposed Pt/SiGeOx/SiGeON/TiN cells is effective improvement<br />

the characteristics of memory switching parameters including excellent<br />

characteristic with good endurance of more than 10 7 times, long retention<br />

time of 10 4 s in 125� and more stable in resistance switching state. Because<br />

the nitrogen introduced can effective minimize the dispersions of oxygen. It<br />

is a simple method to enhance the resistance switching parameters which<br />

introduce only the gas of ammonia in the manufacturing process. The most<br />

merit of this method is that the bi-layer structure is composed of the unitary<br />

material.<br />

TSP-3 Electroluminescence of ZnO nanocrystal in sputtered ZnO-SiO<br />

nanocomposite light-emitting devices, J.T. Chen<br />

(L7897106@mail.ncku.edu.tw), National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan,<br />

W.C. Lai, J.K. Sheu, Y.Y. Yang, Unaffiliated<br />

Recently, nanoscale materials have attracted considerable attention in the<br />

past few years due to their features and potential applications in various<br />

areas. ZnO nanoparticles are of great interest because of their threedimensional<br />

quantum confinement, which strongly enhances the excitation<br />

radiative recombination. Nanoscale or submicronsized ZnO materials have<br />

also been synthesized through various methods, such as sol–gel coating,<br />

sputtering technique, atomic layer deposition etc. In this study, we using a<br />

cosputtering technique to deposit ZnO-SiO2 nanocomposite layer, the<br />

structure of ZnO nanoclusters embedded in the nanocomposite matrix can<br />

be fabricated. The sizes of the ZnO nanoclusters distributed from 2 to 7 nm<br />

in the ZnO-SiO2 nanocomposite layer were examined using a high<br />

resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM). The mechanism of<br />

the electroluminescence emission peak at 376 and 427 nm from the<br />

Ga:ZnO/i-ZnO-SiO2 nanocomposite/p-GaN n-i-p heterostructured lightemitting<br />

devices (LEDs) were attributed to the radiative recombination<br />

occurred from the ZnO clusters and the Mg acceptor levels in the p-GaN<br />

layer.<br />

Key words: electroluminescence; ZnO-SiO nanocomposite; light-emitting<br />

devices (LEDs); ZnO nanoclusters ; sputtering<br />

TSP-4 Sampling the local structure in γ-Al2O3 by XPS analysis of<br />

embedded Argon, M. Prenzel (marina.prenzel@rub.de), A. Rastgoo<br />

Lahrood, A. Kortmann, T. de los Arcos, A. von Keudell, Ruhr Universität<br />

Bochum, Germany<br />

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is a widely used technique for the<br />

chemical characterization of surfaces. In this work we would like to present<br />

evidence that XPS characterization of the Argon gas trapped within an<br />

oxide film deposited by magnetron sputtering can be used to determine the<br />

presence or absence of crystalline structure within the film.<br />

Thursday Afternoon Poster Sessions 126<br />

It is known that, during sputter deposition, a certain percentage of noble gas<br />

can be trapped within the growing film. Although these embedded gases are<br />

not expected to interact chemically with their environment, their electronic<br />

structure has been shown to react to the characteristics of their host. The<br />

shifts in binding energy and their correlation to material characteristics can<br />

be successfully determined using XPS, particularly in metallic and<br />

semiconducting materials [1]. In the case of insulating materials, however,<br />

the interpretation of the energy shifts in core levels has not been so<br />

thoroughly investigated.<br />

Aluminium oxide films were deposited by RF magnetron sputtering, driven<br />

by 13.56 MHz and 71 MHz. The films were deposited under different<br />

biasing and temperature conditions to ensure varying degrees of<br />

crystallinity, and characterized by X-ray diffraction. The Ar2p core level of<br />

the embedded Argon atoms was investigated by XPS.<br />

In totally amorphous samples, the Ar2p peak was fitted using a single<br />

component at ~242 eV. However, in the cases of films with γcrystalline<br />

phases, the Ar2p peak needed to be fitted with two different components at<br />

~241 eV and ~242 eV, respectively. In order to confirm the association of<br />

the lower binding energy component to the crystalline phase, the samples<br />

were bombarded in-situ with Neon ions to destroy the crystallinity of the<br />

film without introducing additional Argon. The in-situ sputtering with Neon<br />

of crystalline samples resulted in the disappearance of the lower BE<br />

component in the Ar2p signal. This indicates that the embedded noble gas<br />

has the potential to provide a fingerprint for crystallinity that can be used<br />

during standard XPS characterization of the films.<br />

The work is funded by DFG within SFB-TR 87.<br />

[1] A. Rastgoo Lahrood et al. Thin Solid Films 520 (2011) 1625-1630<br />

TSP-5 Deposition, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Modoped<br />

CeO2 Films Prepared by Pulsed Unbalanced Magnetron<br />

Sputtering, I.W. Park (ipark@mines.edu), J. Moore, J. Lin, Colorado<br />

School of Mines, US, D. Hurley, M. Khafizov, Idaho National <strong>Lab</strong>oratory,<br />

US, A. El-Azab, Florida State University, Florida, US, T. Allen, C.<br />

Yablinsky, M. Gupta, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, J. Gan, Idaho<br />

National <strong>Lab</strong>oratory, US, M. Manuel, H. Henderson, B. Valderrama,<br />

University of Florida, US<br />

A fission-reactor fuel assembly typically contains ceramic components (the<br />

fuel itself) and metallic components (the cladding that isolates the<br />

radioactive fuel from the coolant). The cumulative effect from fissiondamage<br />

processes, high temperatures, and high thermal gradients is to cause<br />

severe degradation in the thermal and mechanical properties of the fuel<br />

assembly, limiting its lifetime and strongly affecting operational cost. In<br />

this work, metallic Mo was doped into the CeO2 base materials to<br />

investigate the relationship between microstructural changes and<br />

mechanical properties of Ce-Mo-O films. The films were deposited on<br />

silicon wafer substrates in argon-oxygen atmosphere using pulsed<br />

unbalanced magnetron sputtering (P-UBMS) from pure Ce and Mo targets<br />

with a substrate heating capability system. The crystallinity of the samples<br />

was characterized by x-ray diffraction (XRD, PHILIPS, X’pert-MPD) using<br />

CuKα radiation. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS, PHI XPS System,<br />

5600LS) using a monochromatic Al source was also performed to<br />

determine the contents of Ce, Mo and O and to observe the bonding status<br />

of the annealed ceria samples. A MTS nano-indenter equipped with<br />

Berkovich diamond indenter will be used to perform depth sensing<br />

nanoindentation testing on the annealed Ce-Mo-O films and to obtain<br />

mechanical values of nanohardness and Young’s modulus with a Poisson’s<br />

ratio of 0.25.<br />

TSP-6 Effect of stress on the electrical bistability of poly Nvinylcarbazole<br />

films, J.C. Wang, Y.S. Lai (yslai@nuu.edu.tw), National<br />

United University, Taiwan<br />

In this work, the bistable switching of resistance memory devices on a<br />

flexible substrate is investigated. PVK films are deposited by spin coating<br />

on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate. The Al bottom and top<br />

electrodes are patterned through a hard mask to form an Al/PVK/Al/PET<br />

structure. The bending stress (i.e., tensile or compressive) and cyclic<br />

bending deformation are carried out to study the bistable switching of the<br />

device. The operation voltage and stability of memory states (retention) are<br />

also examined. The connection between the bistable behavior and material<br />

properties is also demonstrated.<br />

TSP-7 Thin Film Bond and Mass Density Measurements Using Fourier<br />

Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, S. King (sean.king@intel.com), Intel<br />

Corporation, US<br />

Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy has long been utilized as<br />

an analytical technique for qualitatively determining the presence of various<br />

different chemical bonds in gases, liquids, and thin dielectric films. In some<br />

cases, quantitative measurements of the concentration or density of different

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