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SUBMITTER: Ghafoor N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6218527 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghafoor N N Petrov I I Holec D D Greczynski G G Palisaitis J J Persson P O A POA Hultman L L Birch J J
Scientific reports 20181105 1
Nanostructure formation via surface-diffusion-mediated segregation of ZrN and AlN in Zr<sub>1-x</sub>Al<sub>x</sub>N films during high mobility growth conditions is investigated for 0 ≤ × ≤ 1. The large immiscibility combined with interfacial surface and strain energy balance resulted in a hard nanolabyrinthine lamellar structure with well-defined (semi) coherent c-ZrN and w-AlN domains of sub-nm to ~4 nm in 0.2 ≤ × ≤ 0.4 films, as controlled by atom mobility. For high AlN contents (x > 0.49) Al ...[more]