碳至钛表面拉-压应力转变.pdfVIP

Carbon turns the tensile surface stress of Ti to be compressive Yongqing Fu, 1 2* 1 1 Chang Q. Sun, Bibo Yan, Hejun Du 1 School of MPE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798 2 School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798 The residual stresses of the Ti/TiC/Diamond interfaces have been characterized at different stages of diamond growth using Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. It is found that the tensile stress dominates in the pure Ti surface and that carbon turns the tensile surface stress of the Ti into compression upon the TiC interlayer formation. The compressive stress in the TiC interlayer and the tensile stress of Ti reduce gradually with the thickness of diamond films. Findings agree with the recent modeling predictions: (i) surface bond contraction induces intrinsically the tensile stress of a clean metal surface and, (ii) carbide formation turns the tensile surface stress of metal surface to be compressive. E-mail: ecqsun@.sg; More information: .sg/home/ecqsun/rtf/JPD-YQ-01.pdf - 1 - 1. Introduction Surface stress links the microscopic bonding configuration at an interfacial region 1 2 with its macroscopic properties [ , ]. It plays a central role in the thermodynamics and acoustics of solid surfaces. During the last decade increasing interest has been paid to processes which are strongly influenced by surface stress effects such as reconstruction, interfaci