Pulsed Laser Deposited TiO2Films : Tailoring optical properties

• TiO2 amorphous films have been pulsed laser deposited onto glass substrates. Film characterization by X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy and transmission spectroscopy was performed with the aim of extracting the information on the film crystalline structure, surface roughness and optical properties. Three methods for improving film optical performance have been employed, namely deposition at elevated temperatures, post-annealing in thermodynamically equilibrium conditions and rapid thermal annealing (RTA). The best characteristics were achieved in the case of the film subjected to RTA at 500 °C: refractive index n = 2.53, absorption coefficient α = 404 cm- 1 at λ = 550 nm and rms surface roughness as low as 0.6 nm. The results obtained were found to be one of the best published so far.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Atom- och molekylfysik och optik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics (hsv//eng)

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Absorption coefficient

Anatase

Pulsed laser deposition

Rapid thermal annealing

Refractive index

Rutile

Surface roughness

Optics

Optik

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