Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 1992
Reactive pulsed laser deposition of titanium targets in a nitrogen atmosphere has been used to deposit thin titanium oxynitride films on Si substrates. The gold coloured layers exhibited a smooth, featureless surface and good chemical resistance in HF-HNO3 mixtures. The films had a high oxygen content which was responsible for relatively high electrical resistivity, measured to be 200–600 μΩ cm. This new method can easily be applied to the growth of other important nitrides such as ZrN, WN, HfN or the deposition of multilayer structures such as TiN/Ti on a variety of substrates.