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Making porous conductive carbon films with unbalanced magnetron sputtering

  • Sung Kim
  • , Bibhuti Bhusan Sahu
  • , Byung Mook Weon
  • , Jeon Geon Han
  • , Jari Koskinen
  • , Sami Franssila

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Abstract

Porous conductive carbon films are useful for application in fuel cells and biomedical sensors. Controllability of the porosity in conductive carbon films was investigated by using unbalanced magnetron sputtering (UBMS). Here, we show through porosity analysis and plasma diagnostics that carbon films can be tuned to have porosity ranging from amorphous to porous by varying the working pressures from 3 to 140 mTorr in UBMS. The porosity control is attributed to the carbon adatom energy change by control of the working pressures. This approach enabled us to obtain porous carbon films of 44-68% with a high conductivity of 20-0.001S/cm, implying the feasibility of porous conductive carbon films for advanced applications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10304
Number of pages1
JournalJapanese Journal of Applied Physics
Volume54
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

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