Samarium electrodeposited acetate and oxide thin films on stainless steel substrate characterized by XPS

Kristian Myhre, Jonathan Burns, Harry Meyer, Nathan Sims, Rose Boll

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Abstract

Characterization of a samarium thin film deposited on a stainless steel substrate using electrodeposition was carried out with a Thermo Scientific K-Alpha X-ray photoelectron spectrometer. Two types of samarium electrodeposition samples were studied, one as-deposited and one heated to 700 °C in an air atmosphere. Survey scans include peaks coming from the stainless steel substrate, such as Fe and Cr. An x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) survey spectrum, Sm 3d, C 1s, and O 1s narrow scans are shown. It was determined, using XPS, that the heating process decomposed the deposited Sm acetate to Sm2O3.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)70-81
Number of pages12
JournalSurface Science Spectra
Volume23
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2016

Funding

This research is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, Isotope Development and Production for Research and Applications Program. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

Keywords

  • electrodeposition
  • samarium
  • thin film

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