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The effect of working-gas pressure on the texture of iron films on Si(100)/SiO2 substrates prepared by magnetron sputtering at room temperature is studied. It is shown that a change in working-gas pressure from 1.33 to 0.09 Pa leads to a change in the texture of the films from (110) to (200), which is accompanied by transition from a columnar to quasi-homogeneous microstructure of the films. It is found that the surface roughness of the film nonmonotonically depends on working-gas pressure and has a maximum in a pressure range corresponding to the coexistence of phases with the (110) and (200) textures in the film.
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Original Russian Text © A.S. Dzhumaliev, Yu.V. Nikulin, Yu.A. Filimonov, 2013, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2013, Vol. 39, No. 21, pp. 10–17.
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Dzhumaliev, A.S., Nikulin, Y.V. & Filimonov, Y.A. The formation of the (200) and (110) textures in iron films prepared by magnetron sputtering. Tech. Phys. Lett. 39, 938–941 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785013110047
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