Abstract
50 nm films Ag–(0.3–1 at.% W)–oxygen deposited by electroless onto Pd activated SiO 2/Si show fast, low activation energy decay of their electrical resistivity ρ after annealing above the threshold temperature T ∗ = 90 ± 10 °C. The decrease in ρ was attributed in our previous works to surface diffusion controlled sintering. In attempt to understand the mechanism of this interesting effect we studied further the origin of open porosity, W segregation, evolution of the tungstate phase Ag 2W 2O 7 at the internal interfaces and temporal evolution of surface roughness in the course of annealing. A possible role of the tungstate phase transition to super ion conductive state in the diffusion mobility of Ag is speculated.
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