Optical, electrical, and structural properties of sputtered aluminum alloy thin films with copper, titanium and chromium additions

Long-Term Survival of Grazing-Incidence Metal Mirrors for Laser Fusion

“…Additions of only a percent or two of a second constituent can have a large effect on hardness, elastic modulus, and tensile strength. 6 In our experience, precipitates are very dangerous, as they invariably absorb incident light at a much greater rate than pure Al. If a precipitate is more than 10-20 nm in diameter, then reduced damage threshold would most likely result.…”

Sputtering Targets and Thin Films for Integrated Circuits

“…Alloying of Al with elements such as Cu, Ti and Cr has been done to tailor properties of sputtered Al alloy films [185]. Sputtered Al film typically has greater surface roughness, inferior resistance to hillock and whisker formation and low hardness.…”

“…Figure 5.69 shows an experimentally measured reflectance spectrum of Al, Al-Cu, Al-Cu-Ti and Al-Cu-Cr alloy films [185]. Figure 5.69 shows an experimentally measured reflectance spectrum of Al, Al-Cu, Al-Cu-Ti and Al-Cu-Cr alloy films [185].…”

Efficiency a-Si:H solar cell. Detailed theory

“…In our calculations, we have used the wavelength dependences of real and imaginary parts of the permittivity for pure aluminum presented in [11,15], see Fig. 15.…”