Amorphous Oxide Layers on Gold and Nickel Films Observed by Electron Microscopy
- 1 December 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 35 (12) , 3572-3575
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1713272
Abstract
Thin films of vapor‐deposited nickel and gold, supported only by copper grids, were annealed inside the electron microscope. The microstructures were recorded as a function of temperature. The originally continuous thin films of nickel (150 Å thick) and gold (400 Å thick) form discontinuous islands at temperatures of 700° and 600°C, respectively. The islands of metal are supported by a thin amorphous membrane, in the nickel films identified as NiO, that accounts for the high tensile strengths observed on thin films.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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