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Title: Thin film deposition by electric and magnetic crossed-field diode sputtering. [Patent application]

Abstract

Applying a coating of titanium nitride to a klystron window by means of a cross-field diode sputtering array is described. The array is comprised of a cohesive group of numerous small hollow electrically conducting cylinders and is mounted so that the open ends of the cylinders on one side of the group are adjacent to a titanium cathode plate. The workpiece is mounted so as to face the open ends of the other side of the group. A magnetic field is applied to the array so as to be coaxial with the cylinders and a potential is applied across the cylinders and the cathode plate, the cylinders as an anode being positive with respect to the cathode plate. The cylinders, the cathode plate, and the workpiece are situated in an atmosphere of nitrogen which becomes ionized such as by field emission because of the electric field between the cylinders and cathode plate, thereby establishing an anode-cathode discharge that results in sputtering of the titanium plate. The sputtered titanium coats the workpiece and chemically combines with the nitrogen to form a titanium nitride coating on the workpiece. Gas pressure, gas mixtures, cathode material composition, voltages applied to the cathode and anode,more » the magnetic field, cathode, anode and workpiece spacing, and the aspect ratio (ratio of length to inner diameter) of the anode cylinders, all may be controlled to provide consistent optimum thin film coatings of various compositions and thickness. Another facet of the disclosure is the coating of microwave components per se with titanium nitride to reduce multifactoring under operating conditions of the components.

Inventors:
Issue Date:
OSTI Identifier:
7273635
Assignee:
Energy Research and Development Administration
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; TITANIUM NITRIDES; SPUTTERING; WINDOWS; COATINGS; FIELD EMISSION; FILMS; GASES; KLYSTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRESSURE CONTROL; CONTROL; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON TUBES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EMISSION; FLUIDS; MICROWAVE EQUIPMENT; MICROWAVE TUBES; NITRIDES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OPENINGS; PNICTIDES; RADIATIONS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; 360201* - Ceramics, Cermets, & Refractories- Preparation & Fabrication

Citation Formats

Welch, K M. Thin film deposition by electric and magnetic crossed-field diode sputtering. [Patent application]. United States: N. p., 1975. Web.
Welch, K M. Thin film deposition by electric and magnetic crossed-field diode sputtering. [Patent application]. United States.
Welch, K M. Fri . "Thin film deposition by electric and magnetic crossed-field diode sputtering. [Patent application]". United States.
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abstractNote = {Applying a coating of titanium nitride to a klystron window by means of a cross-field diode sputtering array is described. The array is comprised of a cohesive group of numerous small hollow electrically conducting cylinders and is mounted so that the open ends of the cylinders on one side of the group are adjacent to a titanium cathode plate. The workpiece is mounted so as to face the open ends of the other side of the group. A magnetic field is applied to the array so as to be coaxial with the cylinders and a potential is applied across the cylinders and the cathode plate, the cylinders as an anode being positive with respect to the cathode plate. The cylinders, the cathode plate, and the workpiece are situated in an atmosphere of nitrogen which becomes ionized such as by field emission because of the electric field between the cylinders and cathode plate, thereby establishing an anode-cathode discharge that results in sputtering of the titanium plate. The sputtered titanium coats the workpiece and chemically combines with the nitrogen to form a titanium nitride coating on the workpiece. Gas pressure, gas mixtures, cathode material composition, voltages applied to the cathode and anode, the magnetic field, cathode, anode and workpiece spacing, and the aspect ratio (ratio of length to inner diameter) of the anode cylinders, all may be controlled to provide consistent optimum thin film coatings of various compositions and thickness. Another facet of the disclosure is the coating of microwave components per se with titanium nitride to reduce multifactoring under operating conditions of the components.},
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