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Using X-ray phase analysis, atomic force microscopy, and secondary ion mass-spectrometry, the phase formation and component distribution in a Co–TiO2 film system have been investigated during magnetron sputtering of the metal on the oxide and subsequent vacuum annealing. It has been found that cobalt diffuses deep into titanium oxide to form complex oxides CoTi2O5 and CoTiO3. A mechanism behind their formation at grain boundaries throughout the thickness of the TiO2 film is suggested. It assumes the reactive diffusion of cobalt along grain boundaries in the oxide. A quantitative model of reactive interdiffusion in a bilayer polycrystalline metal–oxide film system with limited solubility of components has been developed. The individual diffusion coefficients of cobalt and titanium have been determined in the temperature interval 923–1073 K.
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Original Russian Text © N.N. Afonin, V.A. Logacheva, 2018, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2018, Vol. 88, No. 4, pp. 621–627.
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Afonin, N.N., Logacheva, V.A. Cobalt Modification of Thin Rutile Films Magnetron-Sputtered in Vacuum. Tech. Phys. 63, 605–611 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784218040023
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