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Title: Review Article: Stress in thin films and coatings: Current status, challenges, and prospects

Journal Article · · Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5011790· OSTI ID:1499940
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  1. CNRS-Université de Poitiers-ENSMA (France)
  2. Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)
  3. Montanuniversität Leoben and Erich Schmid Institute for Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leoben (Austria)
  4. University of Rome “ROMA TRE,” (Italy)
  5. Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States)
  6. PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Paris (France)
  7. Univ. of Akron, OH (United States)
  8. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY (United States)
  9. Eastman Chemical Co., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
  10. Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)

The issue of stress in thin films and functional coatings is a persistent problem in materials science and technology that has congregated many efforts, both from experimental and fundamental points of view, to get a better understanding on how to deal with, how to tailor, and how to manage stress in many areas of applications. With the miniaturization of device components, the quest for increasingly complex film architectures and multiphase systems and the continuous demands for enhanced performance, there is a need toward the reliable assessment of stress on a submicron scale from spatially resolved techniques. Also, the stress evolution during film and coating synthesis using physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), and related processes is the result of many interrelated factors and competing stress sources so that the task to provide a unified picture and a comprehensive model from the vast amount of stress data remains very challenging. This article summarizes the recent advances, challenges, and prospects of both fundamental and applied aspects of stress in thin films and engineering coatings and systems, based on recent achievements presented during the 2016 Stress Workshop entitled “Stress Evolution in Thin Films and Coatings: from Fundamental Understanding to Control.” Evaluation methods, implying wafer curvature, x-ray diffraction, or focused ion beam removal techniques, are reviewed. Selected examples of stress evolution in elemental and alloyed systems, graded layers, and multilayer-stacks as well as amorphous films deposited using a variety of PVD and PECVD techniques are highlighted. Based on mechanisms uncovered by in situ and real-time diagnostics, a kinetic model is outlined that is capable of reproducing the dependence of intrinsic (growth) stress on the grain size, growth rate, and deposited energy. The problems and solutions related to stress in the context of optical coatings, inorganic coatings on plastic substrates, and tribological coatings for aerospace applications are critically examined. This review also suggests strategies to mitigate excessive stress levels from novel coating synthesis perspectives to microstructural design approaches, including the ability to empower crack-based fabrication processes, pathways leading to stress relaxation and compensation, as well as management of the film and coating growth conditions with respect to energetic ion bombardment. Future opportunities and challenges for stress engineering and stress modeling are considered and outlined.

Research Organization:
Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0008799
OSTI ID:
1499940
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1423721
Journal Information:
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 36, Issue 2; ISSN 0734-2101
Publisher:
American Vacuum SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 396 works
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