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Carbon nitride films with high nitrogen content were prepared by reactive pulsed-laser deposition at nitrogen partial pressures varying from 0.1 to 20.0 Torr. It was found that the nitrogen content in the films first increases with increase of the nitrogen pressure, reaches a maximum of 46 at. % at 5.0 Torr, and then decreases to 37 at. % at 20.0 Torr. The almost pure carbon nitride films were systematically characterized by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) concerning the core-level and valence-band structures. Some fingerprint information, which shows the role of nitrogen in controlling the electronic structure of carbon nitride films, was found based on the XPS studies. With enhancing the nitrogen incorporation, both the binding energy and the peak intensity of the core-level and the valence-band spectra vary systematically as a function of nitrogen content in the films.
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Received: 26 June 2000 / Accepted: 26 June 2000 / Published online: 20 September 2000
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Zhao, J., Chen, Z., Yano, T. et al. Core-level and valence-band characteristics of carbon nitride films with high nitrogen content . Appl Phys A 73, 97–101 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003390000620
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003390000620