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         Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622
               www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.2034-2042
   Effect Of Bipolar Pulsed Voltage On Properties Of DLC Films
             Deposited By Inductively Coupled PECVD
  VV. Jagannadham*, C. Anandan**, RG. Divya Rao***, KS. Rajam***,
                         Gargi Raina****
                     * (Flosolver unit, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India
             ** (Surface Engineering Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India
             ***Surface Engineering Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India
                 **** (Nanoelectronics Division, SENSE, VIT University, Vellore, T.N. India)


Abstract
         Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a                   and the bio-compatibility of DLC is regarded as a
metastable form of amorphous carbon having                boon in the bio-medical field. These properties of
large sp3 bonding. DLC films have unique                  DLC depend mainly on its structure resulting from
properties such as high hardness, low-friction,           the combination of sp3 bonding as found in diamond
good transparency in IR region, chemical                  and sp2 bonding as found in graphite. The structure or
inertness and biocompatibility. To have better            the sp3 to sp2 ratio is tailored by the various
performance of the coating one should have                deposition methods available [4].
proper selection of different parameters for
deposition. In the present study, DLC films were          Different methods have been devised for deposition
deposited on p-type silicon (100) substrates using        of DLC, both in physical vapor deposition (PVD) as
methane (CH4) and hydrogen (H2) as source gases           well as in chemical vapor deposition (CVD). PVD
in an inductively coupled RF plasma CVD system.           techniques include sputtering, both magnetron and
Bipolar pulsed bias voltage source at 10 KHz              ion beam sputtering, ion beam assisted deposition
frequency used for substrate shows proper DLC             (IBAD), pulsed laser deposition (PLD) to name a
film. The DLC films were characterized for                few. Similarly CVD techniques consist of plasma
surface morphology & roughness, hardness &                enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) and
Young’s modulus, IR absorption and micro-                 electron-cyclotron resonance CVD (ECR-CVD) [5].
Raman spectroscopy. Deposited DLC film images             Of these, PECVD seems to be the ideal choices for
show that the roughness decreases, hardness &             DLC deposition since CVD techniques give a better
Young’s modulus increases and the Id/Ig ratio             control,     reproducibility,   and     importantly
decreases with the increase of pulse bipolar bias         independence in the choice of substrates wherein
voltage. Raman result shows that disorder                 substrates with complex geometry can also be coated.
decreases. The correlation plotted between Id/Ig,         In PECVD it has been shown that film composition is
hardness and roughness.                                   determined mainly by parameters such as gas
                                                          composition, pressure and plasma parameters. The
Key words: Bias, Bombardment, Diamond-like                ion flux and energy of ions from the plasma that
carbon,       Microstructure,          Nanohardness,      bombard the growth surface during film growth has
Nanoindentation, PECVD.                                   been shown to be important process parameters that
                                                          determine the film composition and properties.
1. Introduction
                                                                   In case of capacitive coupled PECVD the
         Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a form of
                                                          self bias generated by the asymmetric geometry
amorphous carbon, which is metastable containing a
                                                          provides the ion energy. Inductive Coupling leads to
greater fraction of sp3 bonds [1]. DLC is gaining an
                                                          high density plasma and enhancement in the quality
increasing demand because of its vast area of
                                                          of deposited film because of a higher degree of
applications, as protective coatings in magnetic
                                                          ionization of the atoms in gaseous phase. This gives a
storage     disks,    optical     windows,      micro-
                                                          maximum control over the deposited films by
electromechanical devices (MEMs) and automobile
                                                          lowering the process temperature and also
industry. Its unique combination of properties, such
                                                          maintaining the deposition rate same. [6] However,
as chemical inertness, high electrical resistivity and
                                                          an independent control of ion energy, separate from
mechanical hardness, low friction coefficient, high
                                                          the plasma generation source, will give a better
optical transparency and wear resistance, determine
                                                          control over the ion bombardment and hence on the
its wide applicability in a variety of fields ranging
                                                          composition and properties of film. A separate
from optics to tribology, from electronics to
                                                          biasing can be used to provide additional energy by
biomedical as stated before. [1, 2, 3] Highly corrosive
                                                          way of RF or DC bias. [6, 7] The energy supplied by
environments exploit the chemical inertness of DLC
                                                          the    additional    ion    bombardment      provides


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rearrangement of adsorbing species to change the           kept constant at 30V while the negative voltage was
films composition and morphology. DLC has also             varied.
been deposited using plasma based ion implantation
with bipolar pulses with an idea to enhance the                     The IR absorbance of the DLC coatings
adhesion of the deposited film by giving a graded          were measured in the near infrared (IR) range of
carbon interface. [8] In the present study the role of     4000 cm-1 to 400 cm-1 using VECTOR 22 FTIR
bias voltage on the properties of DLC films deposited      Spectrometer (Bruker Make) and the Raman spectra
in inductively coupled plasma CVD (ICP-CVD) is             by Labram 010 model micro Raman Spectrometer
presented.                                                 (DILOR-JOBIN-SPEX make) with laser of 632nm
                                                           wavelength and 3mW power. The nanohardness
2. Experimental procedure                                  measurements and AFM imaging were performed
          The DLC films were deposited in an               with an instrument consisting of a nanohardness
inductively coupled plasma system [9] Silicon, p type      Tester (CSEM Instruments) and an integrated optical
(100), was used as the substrates for the DLC              (Nikon)/Atomic Force Microscope (Surface Imaging)
coating. Before deposition the substrates were             Systems. Indentation profiles were recorded with a
cleaned ultrasonically in acetone, dried and loaded in     maximum load of 5mN and AFM images were
to the vacuum chamber. The vacuum chamber was              obtained on 5µmx5µm area.
pumped to a base pressure of 2x10-6 mbar by
diffusion pump and purged with methane and                 3. Results and Discussion
hydrogen. The samples were cleaned in hydrogen                      Experiments were carried out with different
plasma for 15minutes at 50W RF power. After the            bias voltages and gas compositions of CH4 and H2,
cleaning process, methane and hydrogen in the              for 30 minutes and the same are tabulated in the
desired ratios were introduced and the pressure was        TABLE 1. The samples were systematically studied
maintained at 1.4x10-4 mbar. The flow rate was             by Raman spectroscopy, AFM, NHT, and FTIR
maintained by MKS make mass flow controllers.              spectroscopy for different properties. In this table
Experiments were carried out at 90:10, 80:20 and           roughness, hardness, Young‟s modulus and Id/Ig ratio
75:25 of methane to hydrogen ratio. The RF                 of the DLC films are listed. The results for films
(13.56MHz) power was kept constant at 50W. The             deposited with 75:25 gas compositions at a bias
substrates were kept on an insulated electrode and         frequency of 10 KHz and 50 W RF power are
biased by a separate bias power supply and the bias        presented here to emphasize the effect of different
voltage was varied from 60V to 150V in the pulsed          bias voltage.
as well as continuous DC mode. In the case of
pulsing, both bipolar and unipolar pulses were
employed. For bipolar pulsing, the frequency was
kept constant at 10 KHz and the positive voltage was

Table 1 Experimental Details of DLC films deposited at 50W RF power and 10 KHz bias frequency.

      Run No.    Gas              Bias Voltage (V)            Roughn    Young‟s      Hardness      Id/Ig
                 composition      +ve -ve        pulsing      ess       Modulus      (GPa)
                 (%)                                          (nm)      (GPa)
                 CH4:H2
      C20        75:25            30     60       Y           2.62      191.65       15.59         0.724
      C30        75:25            30     80       Y           2.22      196.85       17.54         --
      C23        75:25            30     100      Y           2.10      204.10       19.6          0.695
      C21        75:25            30     120      Y           1.94      198.90       25.34         0.634
      C22        75:25            60     130      Y           2.02      196.28       16.52         --
      C25        90:10            60     150      Y           --        187.01       23.45         --
      C31        90:10            60     100      Y           2.71      177.22       15.64         --
      C33        90:10            --     100      N           1.91      158.99       13.52         0.811
      C36        90:10            --     -80      N           --        --           --            --
      C38        90:10            50     --       N           2.39      189.13       15.27         --
      C39        90:10            60     120      Y           --        --           --            --
      C40        90:10            60     100      Y           --        --           --            --

         The properties of DLC films are strongly           of great relevance to achieve a good control of
connected to their hydrogen concentration, which            optical, electric, mechanical and surface properties
plays an important role in the microstructure of            of DLC. IR transmittance spectra of DLCfilms
film matrix. Thus, the study of hydrogen content is         grown at 10 KHz pulse frequency and at -150, 130,



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-100 V, +50 V and +100 V bias are shown in                 associated with the major presence of hydrogen
Fig.1 in the wavelength range of 2800 cm-1 to 3100         bonds in the form of sp3-CH3 and sp3-CH2 groups.
cm-1. Three peaks are present in Fig.1; they are           TABLE 2 shows that the intensity of peak centered
centered at 2962 cm-1, 2854 cm-1, and 2925 cm-1            at 2924 cm-1 with applied bias voltage increases. IR
wave numbers. These three peaks are due to the             absorbance of DLC films were estimated by
stretching of C-H bond. [10, 11, 12] The resulting         measuring the intensity of the peak (2924 cm -1) of
peaks of absorption spectra appear centered                each samples with the base line correction as a first
approximately at 2920 cm-1, wave number that is            approximation.

Table 2 Intensity dependence (2924 cm-1 peak) of DLC films on the bias voltage.
    Sample                Bias Voltage (V)            Bias condition              Absorbance
    C22                   100                         Bi polar Pulsed             0.330
    C31                   60                          Bi polar Pulsed             0.400
    C38                   +50                         Simple bias                 0.390
    C36                   -80                         Simple bias                 0.345
    C39                   120                         Bi polar pulsed             0.465
    C40                   100                         Bi polar pulsed             0.471
    Silicon substrate     No                          ---                         0.165

The decrease of the absorption (Fig.1) from 0.8 to         lowering of hydrogen content in DLC samples,
0.2 as the bias voltage increases from -100 to -150        since the integrated absorption in the C-H
V and for +50 and +100 indicates a reduction in            stretching band is correlated with the hydrogen
hydrogen bonding. This result is interpreted as a          density in DLC.




                                    Figure 1 FTIR spectra of DLC coatings



Data for C39 and C40 is for films deposited for            Fig.2 (a) to (d) show the Raman spectra of the DLC
4hrs and shows that the absorbance of the samples          coatings deposited with different bias voltages on
decreases with the increase of the negative bias           silicon substrate. These spectra were fitted with
keeping other parameters, such as gas composition          Gaussian peaks after subtracting a linear
90:10, RF Power 50W, frequency for the bias                background. The spectra have two peaks at
pulsing 10 KHz, constant. This shows that the              approximately 1340cm-1 (D-band) and 1560cm-1
hydrogen concentration decreases with the increase         (G-band). TABLE 1 lists the Id, Ig and the ratio Id/Ig
of the bias voltage.                                       of DLC films deposited with 75:25 gas ratio, 50 W
                                                           RF power and at different bipolar pulse bias
                                                           voltage with constant pulse frequency of 10 KHz.




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                                           Raman Intensity vs Wavenumber                                                                        Raman Intesity vs Wavenumber

                                   7000                                                                         32000




                                                                                       Raman Intensity (a.u.)
                                   6800                                                                         30000
      Raman Intensity (a.u.)

                                   6600                                                                         28000
                                   6400                                                                         26000
                                   6200                                                                         24000
                                   6000                                                                         22000
                                   5800                                                                         20000
                                   5600                                                                                                        1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000
                                            1200 1350 1500 1650 1800                                                                                                     -1
                                                                -1                                                                                    Raman shift (cm )
                                                 Raman shift (cm )


                                                          (a)                                                                                                    (b)
                                            Raman Intensity vs Wavenumber
                                   3400                                                                                                            Raman Intesity vs Wavenumber
                                   3300
         Raman Intensity (a.u.)




                                                                                                                                         400




                                                                                                                Raman Intensity (a.u.)
                                   3200
                                   3100                                                                                                  300
                                   3000
                                   2900                                                                                                  200
                                   2800                                                                                                  100
                                   2700
                                   2600                                                                                                   0
                                   2500
                                          1050 1200 1350 1500 1650 1800 1950                                                              1050     1200   1350    1500        1650   1800
                                                                 -1                                                                                                      -1
                                                  Raman shift (cm )                                                                                    Raman shift (cm )



                          (c)                                                       (d)
                                                                   3      2
Figure 2: Raman spectra fitted with Gaussian curves to determine sp and sp ratio. DLC films deposited with a
gas composition of CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratio at 50W RF power.

The variation of Id/Ig ratio with substrate bias                                            Id/Ig ratio has been identified with decrease of
voltage is shown in the Fig.3. The ratio decreases                                          disorder in the film. [12, 13, 14].
with bias, especially at higher bias. Decrease of
                                                                      Id/Ig Vs Bias Voltage (V)
                                           0.74

                                           0.72

                                           0.70
                   Id/Ig




                                           0.68

                                           0.66

                                           0.64

                                           0.62
                                                       60             70     80   90              100                                          110        120
                                                                           Bias Voltage (V)


                                  Figure 3 Id/Ig vs. Negative pulsed Bias Voltage (V) plotted using the Gaussian curve fitting data.

Fig.4 show the AFM images for the substrate and                                             Fig.5 and in the TABLE 1 as well. Roughness
DLC films coated on silicon samples. From the                                               varies from 2.6nm at -60V bias to 1.9nm at -120V.
images and the roughness values, the films appear                                           The roughness could be seen decreasing with
smoother than the silicon substrate which has an                                            increasing applied bias voltage. Higher bias shows
RMS roughness of 8.54nm. The dependence of the                                              smoother surface as a consequence of bombarding
roughness on pulse bipolar bias voltage is shown in                                         effect of the incoming ions [15, 16, 17].

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                                  (a)                                            (b)




                                  (c)                                            (d)
                                        5.00 x 5.00[um]
                                        Z =10 nm/div.

Figure 4 Surface morphology of DLC films deposited with a gas composition of CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratio at 50W
                       RF power with (a) -60V, (b) -80V, (c) -100V and (d) -120V


                                         Roughness vs Bias Voltage
                            2.7
                            2.6
                            2.5
           Roughness (nm)




                            2.4
                            2.3
                            2.2
                            2.1
                            2.0
                            1.9
                                    60       70       80   90    100      110       120
                                                   Bias Voltage (V)


Figure 5 Dependence of Ra on negative pulsed bias voltage at a gas composition CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratio and 50W
                                                 RF power




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The nanohardness (H) and Young‟s modulus (E) of                  at different parameters are shown in Fig.6.
the coatings deposited on silicon substrate were                 Indentation profiles show smoother loading and
measured by nanoindentation. The nanohardness                    unloading behavior. The repeatability of hardness
was measured at different points on the coating                  measurements and uniformity of the film‟s
with 5mN load. Nanohardness and Young‟s                          hardness at different places are highlighted by the
modulus was estimated from the indentation                       profiles measured at different places on the sample
profiles following Oliver-Pharr method. [18]                     as shown in the graphs below.
Indentation profiles for the DLC coating deposited



                  5                                                               5

                  4                                                               4
    Load (mN)




                                                                      Load (mN)
                  3                                                               3

                  2                                                               2

                  1                                                               1

                  0                                                               0
                      0    20    40   60   80 100 120 140                             0   20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
                                Indentation Depth (nm)                                       Indentation Depth (nm)
                           (a)                                                  (b)
    Figure 6: Indentation profiles at 5 mN load for DLC coatings on Silicon Sample deposited with a gas
composition of CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratio at 50W RF power and 10 KHz bias frequency with different negative bias
                                             (a) -100V (b) -130V

Fig.7 shows the dependence of hardness (H) on the                50W RF power with a bias frequency of 10KHz.
applied bias. It is observed from the graph that                 Hardness is found to increase from 16GPa at -60V
hardness depends on the applied bias. [19] The                   to 25GPa at -120V bias voltage. [19] Fig.8 depicts
hardness seems to be marginally affected by                      the dependence of the Young‟s modulus (E) on
voltage up to 80V and then increases with applied                bias voltage. Graph shows increase of E from 191
bias. In TABLE 1 hardness and Young‟s Modulus                    GPa for a bias of -60V to 204.1 GPa for a bias of -
values are listed against applied pulse bipolar bias             100V and then it decreases to 198.9GPa at a bias of
for DLC coatings deposited with 75:25 gas ratio,                 -120V.

                                           Hardness Vs Bias Voltage (V)

                           26
                           24
                Hardness




                           22
                           20
                           18
                           16
                           14
                                       60         70        80   90               100           110         120
                                                         Bias Voltage (V)


   Figure 7: Dependence of hardness on the applied negative bias voltage. (Gas composition CH4:H2 in 75:25
                             ratios, 50 W RF power and 10 KHz bias frequency)



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                                                       Young's Modulus (GPa) Vs Bias Voltage (V)
                                                    206
                           Young's Modulus (GPa)    204
                                                    202
                                                    200
                                                    198
                                                    196
                                                    194
                                                    192
                                                    190
                                                           60    70     80   90     100      110     120
                                                                      Bias Voltage (V)


 Figure 8: Dependence of Young‟s modulus on the applied negative bias voltage. (Gas composition CH4:H2 in
                          75:25 ratio, 50 W RF power and 10 KHz bias frequency)

In TABLE 1, the nanohardness, Young‟s modulus,                                    10KHz. Fig.9 shows the dependence of the
roughness, the sp3 / sp2 ratio are listed against                                 hardness and roughness on Id/Ig ratio and Fig.10
applied bias for DLC films deposited with 75:25                                   shows the dependence of Young‟s modulus and
gas ratio, 50W RF power with a bias frequency of                                  absorbance on Id/Ig ratio. [13, 20]
                                                       Id/Ig vs Hardness and Roughness
                                           30                                                               3.0

                                           25                                                               2.5




                                                                                                                     Roughness (nm)
            Hardness (GPa)




                                           20                                                               2.0

                                           15                                                               1.5

                                           10                                                               1.0

                                                   5                                                        0.5

                                                   0                                                        0.0
                                                   0.62   0.64   0.66    0.68    0.70    0.72      0.74
                                                                          Id/Ig


    Figure 9: The Id/Ig ratio of sp3 and sp2 shows the dependence with the hardness and roughness.

                                   Id/Ig vs Young's Modulus and Absorbance
                                250                                     0.472
   Young's Modulus (GPa)




                                200                                                                       0.470
                                                                                                                    Absorbance




                                150                                                                       0.468

                                100                                                                       0.466

                                            50                                                            0.464

                                                   0                                                   0.462
                                                   0.62   0.64   0.66    0.68     0.70    0.72      0.74
                                                                         Id/Ig


   Figure 10: The Id/Ig ratio of sp3 and sp2 shows the dependence with the Young‟s modulus and absorbance.
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       In the present study the bipolar pulsed bias 5. Acknowledgements
source used for substrate and inductively coupled                The authors would like to thank Director,
plasma source for generating the plasma. By             NAL for permission to publish the work. The
controlling the bias voltage (+ve bias fixed at 30V     authors would like to thank Mr. Manikandanath
and –ve bias varied from 60 to 120V at 10 KHz           and Mr. Praveen for providing the Raman and
frequency) applied to the substrate without altering    AFM results of the DLC film for the
the plasma power or electrode geometry, DLC             characterization.
films deposited under different ion fluxes and ion
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  • 1. VV. Jagannadham, C. Anandan, RG. Divya Rao, KS. Rajam, Gargi Raina / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.2034-2042 Effect Of Bipolar Pulsed Voltage On Properties Of DLC Films Deposited By Inductively Coupled PECVD VV. Jagannadham*, C. Anandan**, RG. Divya Rao***, KS. Rajam***, Gargi Raina**** * (Flosolver unit, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India ** (Surface Engineering Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India ***Surface Engineering Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India **** (Nanoelectronics Division, SENSE, VIT University, Vellore, T.N. India) Abstract Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a and the bio-compatibility of DLC is regarded as a metastable form of amorphous carbon having boon in the bio-medical field. These properties of large sp3 bonding. DLC films have unique DLC depend mainly on its structure resulting from properties such as high hardness, low-friction, the combination of sp3 bonding as found in diamond good transparency in IR region, chemical and sp2 bonding as found in graphite. The structure or inertness and biocompatibility. To have better the sp3 to sp2 ratio is tailored by the various performance of the coating one should have deposition methods available [4]. proper selection of different parameters for deposition. In the present study, DLC films were Different methods have been devised for deposition deposited on p-type silicon (100) substrates using of DLC, both in physical vapor deposition (PVD) as methane (CH4) and hydrogen (H2) as source gases well as in chemical vapor deposition (CVD). PVD in an inductively coupled RF plasma CVD system. techniques include sputtering, both magnetron and Bipolar pulsed bias voltage source at 10 KHz ion beam sputtering, ion beam assisted deposition frequency used for substrate shows proper DLC (IBAD), pulsed laser deposition (PLD) to name a film. The DLC films were characterized for few. Similarly CVD techniques consist of plasma surface morphology & roughness, hardness & enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) and Young’s modulus, IR absorption and micro- electron-cyclotron resonance CVD (ECR-CVD) [5]. Raman spectroscopy. Deposited DLC film images Of these, PECVD seems to be the ideal choices for show that the roughness decreases, hardness & DLC deposition since CVD techniques give a better Young’s modulus increases and the Id/Ig ratio control, reproducibility, and importantly decreases with the increase of pulse bipolar bias independence in the choice of substrates wherein voltage. Raman result shows that disorder substrates with complex geometry can also be coated. decreases. The correlation plotted between Id/Ig, In PECVD it has been shown that film composition is hardness and roughness. determined mainly by parameters such as gas composition, pressure and plasma parameters. The Key words: Bias, Bombardment, Diamond-like ion flux and energy of ions from the plasma that carbon, Microstructure, Nanohardness, bombard the growth surface during film growth has Nanoindentation, PECVD. been shown to be important process parameters that determine the film composition and properties. 1. Introduction In case of capacitive coupled PECVD the Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a form of self bias generated by the asymmetric geometry amorphous carbon, which is metastable containing a provides the ion energy. Inductive Coupling leads to greater fraction of sp3 bonds [1]. DLC is gaining an high density plasma and enhancement in the quality increasing demand because of its vast area of of deposited film because of a higher degree of applications, as protective coatings in magnetic ionization of the atoms in gaseous phase. This gives a storage disks, optical windows, micro- maximum control over the deposited films by electromechanical devices (MEMs) and automobile lowering the process temperature and also industry. Its unique combination of properties, such maintaining the deposition rate same. [6] However, as chemical inertness, high electrical resistivity and an independent control of ion energy, separate from mechanical hardness, low friction coefficient, high the plasma generation source, will give a better optical transparency and wear resistance, determine control over the ion bombardment and hence on the its wide applicability in a variety of fields ranging composition and properties of film. A separate from optics to tribology, from electronics to biasing can be used to provide additional energy by biomedical as stated before. [1, 2, 3] Highly corrosive way of RF or DC bias. [6, 7] The energy supplied by environments exploit the chemical inertness of DLC the additional ion bombardment provides 2034 | P a g e
  • 2. VV. Jagannadham, C. Anandan, RG. Divya Rao, KS. Rajam, Gargi Raina / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.2034-2042 rearrangement of adsorbing species to change the kept constant at 30V while the negative voltage was films composition and morphology. DLC has also varied. been deposited using plasma based ion implantation with bipolar pulses with an idea to enhance the The IR absorbance of the DLC coatings adhesion of the deposited film by giving a graded were measured in the near infrared (IR) range of carbon interface. [8] In the present study the role of 4000 cm-1 to 400 cm-1 using VECTOR 22 FTIR bias voltage on the properties of DLC films deposited Spectrometer (Bruker Make) and the Raman spectra in inductively coupled plasma CVD (ICP-CVD) is by Labram 010 model micro Raman Spectrometer presented. (DILOR-JOBIN-SPEX make) with laser of 632nm wavelength and 3mW power. The nanohardness 2. Experimental procedure measurements and AFM imaging were performed The DLC films were deposited in an with an instrument consisting of a nanohardness inductively coupled plasma system [9] Silicon, p type Tester (CSEM Instruments) and an integrated optical (100), was used as the substrates for the DLC (Nikon)/Atomic Force Microscope (Surface Imaging) coating. Before deposition the substrates were Systems. Indentation profiles were recorded with a cleaned ultrasonically in acetone, dried and loaded in maximum load of 5mN and AFM images were to the vacuum chamber. The vacuum chamber was obtained on 5µmx5µm area. pumped to a base pressure of 2x10-6 mbar by diffusion pump and purged with methane and 3. Results and Discussion hydrogen. The samples were cleaned in hydrogen Experiments were carried out with different plasma for 15minutes at 50W RF power. After the bias voltages and gas compositions of CH4 and H2, cleaning process, methane and hydrogen in the for 30 minutes and the same are tabulated in the desired ratios were introduced and the pressure was TABLE 1. The samples were systematically studied maintained at 1.4x10-4 mbar. The flow rate was by Raman spectroscopy, AFM, NHT, and FTIR maintained by MKS make mass flow controllers. spectroscopy for different properties. In this table Experiments were carried out at 90:10, 80:20 and roughness, hardness, Young‟s modulus and Id/Ig ratio 75:25 of methane to hydrogen ratio. The RF of the DLC films are listed. The results for films (13.56MHz) power was kept constant at 50W. The deposited with 75:25 gas compositions at a bias substrates were kept on an insulated electrode and frequency of 10 KHz and 50 W RF power are biased by a separate bias power supply and the bias presented here to emphasize the effect of different voltage was varied from 60V to 150V in the pulsed bias voltage. as well as continuous DC mode. In the case of pulsing, both bipolar and unipolar pulses were employed. For bipolar pulsing, the frequency was kept constant at 10 KHz and the positive voltage was Table 1 Experimental Details of DLC films deposited at 50W RF power and 10 KHz bias frequency. Run No. Gas Bias Voltage (V) Roughn Young‟s Hardness Id/Ig composition +ve -ve pulsing ess Modulus (GPa) (%) (nm) (GPa) CH4:H2 C20 75:25 30 60 Y 2.62 191.65 15.59 0.724 C30 75:25 30 80 Y 2.22 196.85 17.54 -- C23 75:25 30 100 Y 2.10 204.10 19.6 0.695 C21 75:25 30 120 Y 1.94 198.90 25.34 0.634 C22 75:25 60 130 Y 2.02 196.28 16.52 -- C25 90:10 60 150 Y -- 187.01 23.45 -- C31 90:10 60 100 Y 2.71 177.22 15.64 -- C33 90:10 -- 100 N 1.91 158.99 13.52 0.811 C36 90:10 -- -80 N -- -- -- -- C38 90:10 50 -- N 2.39 189.13 15.27 -- C39 90:10 60 120 Y -- -- -- -- C40 90:10 60 100 Y -- -- -- -- The properties of DLC films are strongly of great relevance to achieve a good control of connected to their hydrogen concentration, which optical, electric, mechanical and surface properties plays an important role in the microstructure of of DLC. IR transmittance spectra of DLCfilms film matrix. Thus, the study of hydrogen content is grown at 10 KHz pulse frequency and at -150, 130, 2035 | P a g e
  • 3. VV. Jagannadham, C. Anandan, RG. Divya Rao, KS. Rajam, Gargi Raina / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.2034-2042 -100 V, +50 V and +100 V bias are shown in associated with the major presence of hydrogen Fig.1 in the wavelength range of 2800 cm-1 to 3100 bonds in the form of sp3-CH3 and sp3-CH2 groups. cm-1. Three peaks are present in Fig.1; they are TABLE 2 shows that the intensity of peak centered centered at 2962 cm-1, 2854 cm-1, and 2925 cm-1 at 2924 cm-1 with applied bias voltage increases. IR wave numbers. These three peaks are due to the absorbance of DLC films were estimated by stretching of C-H bond. [10, 11, 12] The resulting measuring the intensity of the peak (2924 cm -1) of peaks of absorption spectra appear centered each samples with the base line correction as a first approximately at 2920 cm-1, wave number that is approximation. Table 2 Intensity dependence (2924 cm-1 peak) of DLC films on the bias voltage. Sample Bias Voltage (V) Bias condition Absorbance C22 100 Bi polar Pulsed 0.330 C31 60 Bi polar Pulsed 0.400 C38 +50 Simple bias 0.390 C36 -80 Simple bias 0.345 C39 120 Bi polar pulsed 0.465 C40 100 Bi polar pulsed 0.471 Silicon substrate No --- 0.165 The decrease of the absorption (Fig.1) from 0.8 to lowering of hydrogen content in DLC samples, 0.2 as the bias voltage increases from -100 to -150 since the integrated absorption in the C-H V and for +50 and +100 indicates a reduction in stretching band is correlated with the hydrogen hydrogen bonding. This result is interpreted as a density in DLC. Figure 1 FTIR spectra of DLC coatings Data for C39 and C40 is for films deposited for Fig.2 (a) to (d) show the Raman spectra of the DLC 4hrs and shows that the absorbance of the samples coatings deposited with different bias voltages on decreases with the increase of the negative bias silicon substrate. These spectra were fitted with keeping other parameters, such as gas composition Gaussian peaks after subtracting a linear 90:10, RF Power 50W, frequency for the bias background. The spectra have two peaks at pulsing 10 KHz, constant. This shows that the approximately 1340cm-1 (D-band) and 1560cm-1 hydrogen concentration decreases with the increase (G-band). TABLE 1 lists the Id, Ig and the ratio Id/Ig of the bias voltage. of DLC films deposited with 75:25 gas ratio, 50 W RF power and at different bipolar pulse bias voltage with constant pulse frequency of 10 KHz. 2036 | P a g e
  • 4. VV. Jagannadham, C. Anandan, RG. Divya Rao, KS. Rajam, Gargi Raina / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.2034-2042 Raman Intensity vs Wavenumber Raman Intesity vs Wavenumber 7000 32000 Raman Intensity (a.u.) 6800 30000 Raman Intensity (a.u.) 6600 28000 6400 26000 6200 24000 6000 22000 5800 20000 5600 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 1200 1350 1500 1650 1800 -1 -1 Raman shift (cm ) Raman shift (cm ) (a) (b) Raman Intensity vs Wavenumber 3400 Raman Intesity vs Wavenumber 3300 Raman Intensity (a.u.) 400 Raman Intensity (a.u.) 3200 3100 300 3000 2900 200 2800 100 2700 2600 0 2500 1050 1200 1350 1500 1650 1800 1950 1050 1200 1350 1500 1650 1800 -1 -1 Raman shift (cm ) Raman shift (cm ) (c) (d) 3 2 Figure 2: Raman spectra fitted with Gaussian curves to determine sp and sp ratio. DLC films deposited with a gas composition of CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratio at 50W RF power. The variation of Id/Ig ratio with substrate bias Id/Ig ratio has been identified with decrease of voltage is shown in the Fig.3. The ratio decreases disorder in the film. [12, 13, 14]. with bias, especially at higher bias. Decrease of Id/Ig Vs Bias Voltage (V) 0.74 0.72 0.70 Id/Ig 0.68 0.66 0.64 0.62 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 Bias Voltage (V) Figure 3 Id/Ig vs. Negative pulsed Bias Voltage (V) plotted using the Gaussian curve fitting data. Fig.4 show the AFM images for the substrate and Fig.5 and in the TABLE 1 as well. Roughness DLC films coated on silicon samples. From the varies from 2.6nm at -60V bias to 1.9nm at -120V. images and the roughness values, the films appear The roughness could be seen decreasing with smoother than the silicon substrate which has an increasing applied bias voltage. Higher bias shows RMS roughness of 8.54nm. The dependence of the smoother surface as a consequence of bombarding roughness on pulse bipolar bias voltage is shown in effect of the incoming ions [15, 16, 17]. 2037 | P a g e
  • 5. VV. Jagannadham, C. Anandan, RG. Divya Rao, KS. Rajam, Gargi Raina / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.2034-2042 (a) (b) (c) (d) 5.00 x 5.00[um] Z =10 nm/div. Figure 4 Surface morphology of DLC films deposited with a gas composition of CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratio at 50W RF power with (a) -60V, (b) -80V, (c) -100V and (d) -120V Roughness vs Bias Voltage 2.7 2.6 2.5 Roughness (nm) 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.9 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 Bias Voltage (V) Figure 5 Dependence of Ra on negative pulsed bias voltage at a gas composition CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratio and 50W RF power 2038 | P a g e
  • 6. VV. Jagannadham, C. Anandan, RG. Divya Rao, KS. Rajam, Gargi Raina / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.2034-2042 The nanohardness (H) and Young‟s modulus (E) of at different parameters are shown in Fig.6. the coatings deposited on silicon substrate were Indentation profiles show smoother loading and measured by nanoindentation. The nanohardness unloading behavior. The repeatability of hardness was measured at different points on the coating measurements and uniformity of the film‟s with 5mN load. Nanohardness and Young‟s hardness at different places are highlighted by the modulus was estimated from the indentation profiles measured at different places on the sample profiles following Oliver-Pharr method. [18] as shown in the graphs below. Indentation profiles for the DLC coating deposited 5 5 4 4 Load (mN) Load (mN) 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 Indentation Depth (nm) Indentation Depth (nm) (a) (b) Figure 6: Indentation profiles at 5 mN load for DLC coatings on Silicon Sample deposited with a gas composition of CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratio at 50W RF power and 10 KHz bias frequency with different negative bias (a) -100V (b) -130V Fig.7 shows the dependence of hardness (H) on the 50W RF power with a bias frequency of 10KHz. applied bias. It is observed from the graph that Hardness is found to increase from 16GPa at -60V hardness depends on the applied bias. [19] The to 25GPa at -120V bias voltage. [19] Fig.8 depicts hardness seems to be marginally affected by the dependence of the Young‟s modulus (E) on voltage up to 80V and then increases with applied bias voltage. Graph shows increase of E from 191 bias. In TABLE 1 hardness and Young‟s Modulus GPa for a bias of -60V to 204.1 GPa for a bias of - values are listed against applied pulse bipolar bias 100V and then it decreases to 198.9GPa at a bias of for DLC coatings deposited with 75:25 gas ratio, -120V. Hardness Vs Bias Voltage (V) 26 24 Hardness 22 20 18 16 14 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 Bias Voltage (V) Figure 7: Dependence of hardness on the applied negative bias voltage. (Gas composition CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratios, 50 W RF power and 10 KHz bias frequency) 2039 | P a g e
  • 7. VV. Jagannadham, C. Anandan, RG. Divya Rao, KS. Rajam, Gargi Raina / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.2034-2042 Young's Modulus (GPa) Vs Bias Voltage (V) 206 Young's Modulus (GPa) 204 202 200 198 196 194 192 190 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 Bias Voltage (V) Figure 8: Dependence of Young‟s modulus on the applied negative bias voltage. (Gas composition CH4:H2 in 75:25 ratio, 50 W RF power and 10 KHz bias frequency) In TABLE 1, the nanohardness, Young‟s modulus, 10KHz. Fig.9 shows the dependence of the roughness, the sp3 / sp2 ratio are listed against hardness and roughness on Id/Ig ratio and Fig.10 applied bias for DLC films deposited with 75:25 shows the dependence of Young‟s modulus and gas ratio, 50W RF power with a bias frequency of absorbance on Id/Ig ratio. [13, 20] Id/Ig vs Hardness and Roughness 30 3.0 25 2.5 Roughness (nm) Hardness (GPa) 20 2.0 15 1.5 10 1.0 5 0.5 0 0.0 0.62 0.64 0.66 0.68 0.70 0.72 0.74 Id/Ig Figure 9: The Id/Ig ratio of sp3 and sp2 shows the dependence with the hardness and roughness. Id/Ig vs Young's Modulus and Absorbance 250 0.472 Young's Modulus (GPa) 200 0.470 Absorbance 150 0.468 100 0.466 50 0.464 0 0.462 0.62 0.64 0.66 0.68 0.70 0.72 0.74 Id/Ig Figure 10: The Id/Ig ratio of sp3 and sp2 shows the dependence with the Young‟s modulus and absorbance. 2040 | P a g e
  • 8. VV. Jagannadham, C. Anandan, RG. Divya Rao, KS. Rajam, Gargi Raina / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.2034-2042 In the present study the bipolar pulsed bias 5. Acknowledgements source used for substrate and inductively coupled The authors would like to thank Director, plasma source for generating the plasma. By NAL for permission to publish the work. The controlling the bias voltage (+ve bias fixed at 30V authors would like to thank Mr. Manikandanath and –ve bias varied from 60 to 120V at 10 KHz and Mr. Praveen for providing the Raman and frequency) applied to the substrate without altering AFM results of the DLC film for the the plasma power or electrode geometry, DLC characterization. films deposited under different ion fluxes and ion energies. This leads to study and understand the References effect of ion bombardment parameters on the film morphology and film properties. The hardness and [1] J. Robertson, Diamond-like amorphous Young‟s modulus increases with applied bias, the carbon, Reports: a review journal, Materials roughness, on the other hand, decreases i.e. the film Science and Engineering, R 37 (2002), 129– becomes smoother with increase of bias implying 281. that ion bombardment promotes uniform film growth. The decrease of roughness at higher biases [2] Hare Ram Aryal, Sudip Adhikari, Dilip may be due to increased ion bombardment energy Chandra Ghimire, Golap Kalita, Masayoshi which promote diffusion of adsorbing reactive Umeno, Preparation of diamond like carbon species on the growth surface and result in denser thin films above room temperature and their film. [13] Also, the sp3/sp2 ratio given by the Id/Ig properties, Diamond & Related Materials 17 ratio decreases with increase of bias. As in Fig.10, (2008) 680–683. IR absorbance increases, Id/Ig ratio also increases. This is due to differences in the sp3 to sp2 bonding [3] G. Messina, A. Paoletti, S. Santangelo, A. which is altered by the ion bombardment. [12, 21- Tebano, A. Tucciarone, Raman 24] The higher hardness at higher bias voltages is characterisation and hardness properties of due to the very dense film. [13, 25] diamond-like carbon films grown by pulsed laser deposition technique, Microsystem 4. Conclusion Technologies 6 (1999) 30 - 36 ( Springer- Plasma enhanced chemical vapor Verlag) 1999. deposition (PECVD) technique was used for depositing diamond-like-carbon (DLC) coatings on [4] S. V. Hainsworth and N. J. Uhure, Diamond- p type silicon in inductively coupled RF plasma at like carbon coatings for Tribology: different bipolar pulsed bias (+ve bias fixed at 30V production techniques, characterization and –ve bias changed from 60V to 120V at 10 KHz methods and applications Intern. Mater. frequency) conditions. The films were Rev. 52 (2007) 153. characterized for surface morphology, hardness and Young‟s modulus. DLC films deposited with 75:25 [5] G. Adamopoulos, C. Godet, T. Zorba, K. M. gas compositions, gave following interesting Paraskevopoulos, D. Ballutaud, Electron results with the conclusion: cyclotron resonance deposition, structure, and properties of oxygen incorporated Roughness measurements of the DLC coatings hydrogenated diamond-like amorphous show the films are very smooth with a roughness of carbon films, Journal of Applied Physics, around (RMS) 2.10 nm. The roughness decreases Vol 96, No. 10 (2004) 5456. with increase of bias voltage. [6] J. J. Lee, Application of inductively coupled Analysis of Raman spectra for sp3 and sp2 ratio plasma to CVD and PVD, Surface & shows Id/Ig values from 0.5 to 0.8 can be obtained Coatings Technology 200 (2005) 31 – 34. under different deposition conditions. Also, Id/Ig [7] Sudheer Kumar, C. M. S. Rauthan, K. M. K. decreases with bias keeping other parameters Srivatsa, P. N. Dixit, R. Bhattacharyya, constant. Realization of different carbon nanostructures by a microwave plasma Nanohardness of the DLC film is in the range of enhanced chemical vapor deposition (13 GPa to 25 GPa) and shows dependence on the technique, Applied Surface Science 182 bias; it increases with the increase of bias. Young‟s (2001) 326 – 332. modulus also shows similar results with increasing bias. [8] S.Miyagawa and Y. Miyagawa, Deposition of Diamond-like carbon films using Plasma based ion implantation with bipolar pulses, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 647, 2001. 2041 | P a g e
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