Abstract
This paper presents an optical diagnostic examination of dc planar magnetron discharge used for titanium deposition at 30 mTorr in argon bulk gas. The results were obtained by optical absorption (OAS) and emission (OES) spectroscopy for two distances from the target without substrate. The absolute density of titanium in the ground and metastable states at 4 cm from the target ranged, respectively, between 8 × 1010 cm−3 and 1012 cm−3 and between 6 × 1010 cm−3 and 3 × 1011 cm−3, in the range 0.2–1.0 A. OES results were used to prepare an assumed interpretation in terms of differences in loss mechanisms, mainly by either diffusion towards the walls for all particles at 8 cm from the target or collision losses for non-radiative species at 4 cm from the target, except for the titanium ground state. This was confirmed by our results of the argon metastable density measurement at 4 cm which was constant at around 7 × 1010 cm−3 with discharge current.
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