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X-ray diffraction area mapping of preferred orientation and phase change in TiO2 thin films deposited by chemical vapor deposition

Hyett, G., Green, M.A., Parkin, I.P. (2006) X-ray diffraction area mapping of preferred orientation and phase change in TiO2 thin films deposited by chemical vapor deposition. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128 (37). pp. 12147-12155. ISSN 00027863 (ISSN). (doi:10.1021/ja062766q) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:51022)

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Abstract

This paper reports on an investigation into the formation of TiO 2 thin films, whereby X-ray diffraction is used to map systematic changes in preferred orientation and phase observed throughout the films. The key to this strategy is the recording of X-ray diffraction patterns of specific and isolated areas of a substrate, ensuring this specificity by the use of a small X-ray sample illumination area (approximately 3-5 mm2). A map of the variation in film composition can then be built up by recording such diffraction patterns at regular intervals over the whole substrate. Two titania films will be presented, grown using atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition, at 450 and 600 °C, from TiCl4 and ethyl-acetate precursors. The film grown at 450 °C showed a systematic change in preferred orientation, while the film grown at 600 °C was composed of a mixture of the rutile and anatase phases of TiO2 with the ratio of these phases altering with position on the substrate. The results of physical property measurements and electron microscopy carried out on the films are also reported, conducted at locations identified by the X-ray diffraction mapping procedure as having different compositions, and hence different physical responses. We found that the photocatalytic activity and hydrophobicity were dependent on the rutile:anatase ratio at any given location on the film. © 2006 American Chemical Society.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1021/ja062766q
Additional information: Unmapped bibliographic data: LA - English [Field not mapped to EPrints] J2 - J. Am. Chem. Soc. [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Christopher Ingold Laboratories, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom [Field not mapped to EPrints] DB - Scopus [Field not mapped to EPrints]
Uncontrolled keywords: Atmospheric pressure, Chemical vapor deposition, Electron microscopy, Film growth, Hydrophobicity, Titanium oxides, X ray diffraction analysis, Film composition, Phase change, Titania films, Thin films, titanium dioxide, article, atmospheric pressure, chemical vapor deposition, drug mixture, electron microscopy, film, hydrophobicity, illumination, orientation, phase transition, photocatalysis, physical chemistry, X ray diffraction
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics > QC173.45 Condensed Matter
Q Science > QD Chemistry > QD478 Solid State Chemistry
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: Giles Tarver
Date Deposited: 14 Oct 2015 16:14 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:21 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/51022 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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