Synthesis and characterization of metal substituted AlxCr1-x(acetylacetonate)(3) single-source precursors for their application to MOCVD of thin films

Gairola, Anshita and Kunte, Girish V and Chopra, Deepak and Row, Guru TN and Umarji, AM and Shivashankar, SA (2010) Synthesis and characterization of metal substituted AlxCr1-x(acetylacetonate)(3) single-source precursors for their application to MOCVD of thin films. In: Polyhedron, 29 (13). pp. 2680-2688.

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Abstract

A detailed study, involving the synthesis of a single-source precursor containing two metal ions sharing the same crystallographic site, has been undertaken to elucidate the use of such a single-source precursor in a CVD process for growing thin films of oxides comprising these two metals, ensuring a uniform composition and distribution of metal ions. The substituted complexes Cr1-xAlx(acac)(3), where acac = acetyl-acetonate, have been prepared by a co-synthesis method, and characterized using UV-Vis spectroscopy. TGA/DTA measurements, and single crystal X-ray diffraction at low temperature. All the studied compositions crystallize in the monoclinic space group P2(1)/c with Z = 4 in the unit cell. It was observed that the ratio (Al:Cr) of the site occupancy for the metal ions, obtained from single crystal refinement, is in agreement with the results obtained from complexometric titrations. All the solid state structures have the metal in an octahedral environment forming six-membered chelate rings. M-O acac bond lengths and disorder in the terminal carbon have been studied in detail for these substituted metal-organic complexes. One composition among these was chosen to evaluate their suitability as a single-source precursor in a LPMOCVD process (low-pressure metal-organic chemical vapour deposition) for the deposition of a substituted binary metal oxide thin film. The resulting thin films were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and infrared spectroscopy. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Polyhedron
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords:	Metal-organic; CVD; Single-source precursor; AlxCr1-x(acac)(3); (AlxCr1-x)(2)O-3; Single crystal.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit
Date Deposited:	21 Oct 2010 05:11
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2010 05:11
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/33263

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