Dey, Arjun and Nayak, Manish Kumar and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Pradeepkumar, Maurya Sandeep and Porwal, Deeksha and Gupta, A K and Bera, Parthasarathi and Barshilia, Harish C and Mukhopadhyay, Anoop Kumar and Pandey, Ajoy Kumar and Khan, Kallol and Bhattacharya, Manjima and Kumar, D Raghavendra and Sridhara, N and Sharma, Anand Kumar (2016) Nanocolumnar Crystalline Vanadium Oxide-Molybdenum Oxide Antireflective Smart Thin Films with Superior Nanomechanical Properties. Scientific Reports, 6. Article No-36811. ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

Vanadium oxide-molybdenum oxide (VO-MO) thin (21-475 nm) films were grown on quartz and silicon substrates by pulsed RF magnetron sputtering technique by altering the RF power from 100 to 600 W. Crystalline VO-MO thin films showed the mixed phases of vanadium oxides e.g., V2O5, V2O3 and VO2 along with MoO3. Reversible or smart transition was found to occur just above the room temperature i.e., at similar to 45-50 degrees C. The VO-MO films deposited on quartz showed a gradual decrease in transmittance with increase in film thickness. But, the VO-MO films on silicon exhibited reflectance that was significantly lower than that of the substrate. Further, the effect of low temperature (i.e., 100 degrees C) vacuum (10(-5) mbar) annealing on optical properties e.g., solar absorptance, transmittance and reflectance as well as the optical constants e.g., optical band gap, refractive index and extinction coefficient were studied. Sheet resistance, oxidation state and nanomechanical properties e.g., nanohardness and elastic modulus of the VO-MO thin films were also investigated in as-deposited condition as well as after the vacuum annealing treatment. Finally, the combination of the nanoindentation technique and the finite element modeling (FEM) was employed to investigate yield stress and von Mises stress distribution of the VO-MO thin films.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Engineering Materials
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited:	27 Jan 2017 08:52
Last Modified:	27 Jan 2017 08:52
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/3793

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