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Published May 1981 | Published
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Proton magnetic resonance spectra of plasma-deposited inorganic thin films

Abstract

Proton magnetic resonance data are presented for the hydrogen alloys of plasma-deposited amorphous boron, carbon, silicon carbide, and silicon nitride. Linewidth and lineshape analysis leads to the conclusion that hydrogen nuclei are clustered in a-Si/C:H, a-C:H, and a-Si/C:H. Both a-Si/C:H and a-C:H data show that the hydrogen exists in two phases. Modeling of line- widths in a-Si/C:H indicates that the two phases are heavily hydrogenated carbon clusters imbedded in a weakly hydrogenated a-Si lattice. Finally, evidence is presented for the presence of motionally narrowed hydrogen spectra in a-Si/N:H, a-B:H, and a-C:H. It is suggested that the hydrogen nuclei giving rise to these spectra are associated with disorder modes.

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© 1981 American Vacuum Society. Received 11 March 1981; accepted 20 March 1981. The authors thank S.I. Chan and T.M. Duncan for helpful comments on the manuscript and T.W. Sigmon for assistance with the Rutherford backscattering analysis. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR 77-21394.

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