“…[2,12±23] Different Co II b-diketonate complexes, such as Co(acac) 2 (acac = 2,4-pentanedionate), [2,12±18] Co-(thd) 2 (thd = 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedione), [19] Co(hfac) 2 -2 H 2 O (hfa = CF 3 C(O)CHC(O)CF 3 ), [20] and Co(hfac) 2 -2 H 2 O-tetraglyme adducts (tetraglyme = 2,5,8,11, 14-pentaoxapentadecane), [21] have been used as organometallic precursors to prepare thin films of CoO, Co 3 O 4 , or a mixture of both phases. The recently developed technique of pulsed liquid injection (PI) MOCVD has been previously applied for the preparation of Co 3 O 4 films by using Co(acac) 2 , Co(thd) 2 , and new adducts such as Co(acac) 2 -tetraglyme, [22,23] Co(thd) 2 -tetraglyme, [22,23] Co(acac) 2 -TME-DA (N,N,N¢,N¢-tetramethylethylenediamine), [22] [Co(acac) 2 (DMAPH)] 2 (1-dimethylamino-2-propanol), [23] and Co-(acac) 2 (DMAEH) (2-dimethyaminoethanol). [23] In this paper we report on the preparation and characterization of Co 3 O 4 layers grown on silicon substrates by PIMOCVD using Co(thd) 2 and monoglyme solvent.…”