Void-mediated coherency-strain relaxation and impediment of cubic-to-hexagonal transformation in epitaxial metastable metal/semiconductor TiN/Al0.72Sc0.28N multilayers
Bulk metastable phases can be stabilized during thin-film growth by employing substrates with similar crystal structure and lattice parameter, albeit over a thickness range limited by coherency-strain relaxation. Expanding that strategy, growth of superlattices comprising one stable and another metastable compound with similar crystal structure and lattice parameters are known to yield epitaxial stabilization over a few nanometers of thickness. ... إقراء المزيد