Soft X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopic Investigation of Carbon and Carbon:Transition Metal Composite Films

Carbon and C:V, C:Co, C:Cu nanocomposite films grown by ion beam cosputtering in the temperature range from room temperature (RT) to 500 °C are investigated. Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) have been used to determine electronic structure of the occupied and unoccupied electronic states of the coexisting carbon and transition metal (TM) constituents. The results from the spectroscopy are supplemented by the film composition data and TM inclusion phase structural information obtained by elastic recoil detection analysis and X-ray diffraction, respectively. The TM(2p) XAS shows that V (Cu) is in carbidic (metallic) state over the whole temperature range, while Co shows a transition from a carbidic toward a metallic state when the growth temperature increases from RT to 500 °C. The C(1s) XAS demonstrates that the increase in the growth temperature favors the formation of graphite-like structures in carbon films. On the other hand, the TM metal incorporation stro...

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