• Title of article

    Copper oxide reduction through vacuum annealing

  • Author/Authors

    S.Y. Lee، نويسنده , , N. Mettlach، نويسنده , , N. Nguyen، نويسنده , , Y.M. Sun، نويسنده , , J.M. White ، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    102
  • To page
    109
  • Abstract
    The reduction of partially- and fully-oxidized Cu films was carried out by vacuum annealing, and the reduction mechanisms were investigated in situ by XPS. For a partially-oxidized Cu film, CuO was reduced to Cu2O around 380 K, and the Cu2O concentration decreased with increasing annealing temperature and fell below the XPS detection limit at 673 K. For a fully-oxidized Cu film, CuO started to form Cu2O around 473 K, and Cu began to appear at 673 K. The results for a partially-oxidized film are interpreted in terms of oxygen diffusion into bulk Cu rather than oxygen desorption into vacuum.
  • Keywords
    copper , Oxide , Reduction , X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
  • Journal title
    Applied Surface Science
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Applied Surface Science
  • Record number

    999712