1998 Volume 10 Issue 2-3 Pages 174
The reactivity of N2 gas molecules with Ti atoms (neutral and/or ion) in TiN film formation has been measured quantitatively. Increasing the fraction of Ti ions in all the evaporeted Ti from 2.7×10-3 to 0.26 enhances the N2 reaction probability up to 102 times and facilitates the formation of stoichiometric TiN.