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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

reactive gas sputtering, lithium compound, thin films

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

This research project reports the reactive gas sputtering deposition and structural characterization of lithium compound thin films (LiH and LiF). These materials, due to their low absorption, may have a role as spacer layers in soft x-ray multilayer reflectors. A multilayer is a periodic, alternating structure of a high density and low density (spacer layer) material stacked one on top of another. These materials reflect x-rays by the superposition of the multiple reflections that occur within the multilayer stack. These reflections can be modeled by Bragg’s condition, given as, n=2dsin, where n is an integer, is the wavelength, d is the bi-layer thickness of the multilayer stack, and is the incident angle.

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