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Electron Beam Induced Crystallisation in Iron (III) Fluoride

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

M.S.M. Saifullah ,
C.B. Boothroyd ,
G.A. Botton  and
C.J. Humphreys
M.S.M. Saifullah
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
C.B. Boothroyd
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
G.A. Botton
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
C.J. Humphreys
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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Abstract

Metal fluorides are excellent candidates as high resolution inorganic resists in electron beam nanolithography. Hence it is important to study their damage characteristics under the electron beam to understand their behaviour as inorganic resists. In this paper the electron beam induced damage process in amorphous FeF3 films deposited by different techniques is investigated using selected area diffraction patterns and time resolved parallel electron energy loss spectroscopy. It is found that fluorine is lost from amorphous FeF3 during irradiation and that the material crystallises mainly to FeF2 with some crystalline FeF3. Time resolved energy loss spectroscopy studies show that the coordination polyhedra in amorphous FeF3 are randomly arranged FeF6 octahedra which arrange themselves to give a long range order in the electron beam during crystallisation to FeF2 and FeF3.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 398: Symposium C – Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations , 1995 , 195
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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