Oxidation of Au/Ag films by oxygen plasma: phase separation and generation of nanoporosity

The oxidation of Au/Ag alloy thin films using radio-frequency oxygen plasma was studied in this work. It was demonstrated that there is a phase separation occurring between silver and gold. In addition, it was shown that the preferential oxidation of silver resulted in a solid-state diffusion of sil...

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Main Authors: Abdel-Aziz El Mel, Said A. Mansour, Mujaheed Pasha, Atef Zekri, Janarthanan Ponraj, Akshath Shetty, Yousef Haik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Beilstein-Institut 2020-10-01
Series:Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.11.143