Magnetron sputtering

Growth & Synthesis (Physical depositions of thin films)

Sputtering evaporation is a physical method for the growth of thin films. It is a high vacuum technology, depending of the type of material to be grown, that allows evaporating a large variety of materials: from simple metals to complex inorganic materials. Films can be grown with highly controlled thickness. The method consists in introducing a gas inside the growth chamber (with the total pressure regulated in the mTorr range) and under applying a high direct or radio frequency voltage (when target is a metal or an insulator respectively) and with a gun (magnetron) to create a plasma. Plasma ionizes the gas, that is then accelerated by the high voltage and impacts on target surface evaporating atoms from the surface. Gas is usually argon, although oxygen or nitrogen can be used for more complex materials. Evaporated atoms are deposited over the surface that the film must be grown. In variance with other physical methods, sputtering technique is highly reproducible and thicknesses can be very well calibrated by the depositing time.

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CNR-DSCTM
Italy
C2N-CNRS
France
CSIC-ICMAB
Spain
INL
Portugal
LUND + MAX IV
Sweden
INESC-MN
Portugal
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EURONANOLAB
France
LUND + MAX IV
Sweden
MS - Magnetron sputtering
DC and RF magnetron sputtering
Target materials: Au, Al, Ni, Mo, W, Ti, Si, SiO2, TiN, ITO
Maximum wafer size: 4"
Process chamber base pressure: 10-7 mbar. Ar, N2, O2 gasses.
QCM (Quartz Micro Balance) for monitoring of deposition rate and film thickness
Sample tilt and variable distance are not possible in our PVD-system
INL
Portugal
Kenosistec KS1000
Confocal and co-deposition of a wide range of conductive and non-conductive materials.
DC and RF magnetrons
Substrate temperature control up to 350°C
Possibility to deposit up to 11 different materials without breaking vacuum
EURONANOLAB
France
MS at EURONANOLAB - CEITEC
EURONANOLAB
France
MS at EURONANOLAB - IEMN
EURONANOLAB
France
MS at EURONANOLAB - FEMTO-ST
EURONANOLAB
France
MS at EURONANOLAB - LAAS
EURONANOLAB
France
MS at EURONANOLAB - FBK
EURONANOLAB
France
MS at EURONANOLAB - PoliFAB
EURONANOLAB
France
MS at EURONANOLAB - IMM
EURONANOLAB
France
MS at EURONANOLAB - MMI
EURONANOLAB
France
MS at EURONANOLAB - IMT