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Barrier SiO2-like coatings for archaeological artefacts preservation

PROCHÁZKA, M. BLAHOVÁ, L. KRČMA, F.

Original Title

Barrier SiO2-like coatings for archaeological artefacts preservation

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Thin film chemical vapour deposition technique has been used for more than 50 years. Introducing organosilicones as precursors, e.g. hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) or tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS), brought new possibilities to this method. Barrier properties of thin films have become an important issue, especially for army and emergency services as well as for food and drink manufacturers. Our work is focused on protective HMDSO thin films for encapsulating cleaned archaeological artefacts, preventing the corrosion from destroying these historical items. Thin films are deposited via plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) technique using low pressure capacitively coupled plasma in flow regime. Oxygen transmission rate (OTR) measurement was chosen as the most important one for characterization of barrier properties of deposited thin films. Lowest OTR reached for 50 nm thin film thickness was 120 cm3 m-2 atm-1 day-1. Samples were also analyzed by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR) to determine their composition. Optical emission spectra and thin film thickness were measured during the deposition process. We optimized the deposition parameters for barrier layers by implementation of pulsed mode of plasma and argon plasma pre-treatment into the process.

Keywords

PECVD, barrier coating, HMDSO, OTR

Authors

PROCHÁZKA, M.; BLAHOVÁ, L.; KRČMA, F.

Released

4. 11. 2016

Publisher

IOP Publishing

ISBN

1742-6588

Periodical

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Year of study

768

Number

1

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

012013-1

Pages to

012013-6

Pages count

6

URL

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