Chemical bonding states and solar selective characteristics of unbalanced magnetron sputtered TixM1-x-yNy films

M. Mahbubur Rahman; Zhong Tao Jiang; Paul Munroe; Lee Siang Chuah; Zhi Feng Zhou; Zonghan Xie; Chun Yang Yin; Khalil Ibrahim; Amun Amri; Humayun Kabir; Md Mahbubul Haque; Nick Mondinos; Mohammednoor Altarawneh; Bogdan Z. Dlugogorski

doi:10.1039/c6ra02550a

Chemical bonding states and solar selective characteristics of unbalanced magnetron sputtered Ti_xM_1-x-yN_y films

M. Mahbubur Rahman, Zhong Tao Jiang, Paul Munroe, Lee Siang Chuah, Zhi Feng Zhou, Zonghan Xie, Chun Yang Yin, Khalil Ibrahim, Amun Amri, Humayun Kabir, Md Mahbubul Haque, Nick Mondinos, Mohammednoor Altarawneh, Bogdan Z. Dlugogorski

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Transition metal nitride Ti_xM_1-x-yN_y (M = Al or AlSi) based thin films are evaluated as solar selective surfaces by correlating their spectral selective features with their crystal structure and chemical bonding state including mechanical strength. Ti_0.5N_0.5, Ti_0.25Al_0.25N_0.5, and Ti_0.25Al_0.2Si_0.05N_0.5 films were synthesized on AISI M2 steel substrates via closed field unbalanced magnetron sputtering technology. These were investigated using XRD, SEM, XPS, UV-Vis, FTIR and nanoindentation techniques. Analysis of the optical properties showed the solar absorptance, in the visible range, of the Ti_xM_1-x-yN_y films improved significantly from 51% to 81% with AlSi-doping and an increase of solar absorptance of up to 66% was recorded from films doped with Al. Moreover, the Al doping can reduce the thermal emittance in the infrared range from 6.06% to 5.11%, whereas doping with AlSi reduces the emittance to ca. 3.58%. The highest solar selectivity of 22.63 was achieved with TiAlSiN films. Mechanical studies showed enhanced hardness by ∼32%; enhanced yield strength by ∼16% and enhanced plastic deformation by ∼110% of Al and AlSi doped TiN matrix.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	36373-36383
Number of pages	11
Journal	RSC Advances
Volume	6
Issue number	43
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ra02550a
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Rahman, M. M., Jiang, Z. T., Munroe, P., Chuah, L. S., Zhou, Z. F., Xie, Z., Yin, C. Y., Ibrahim, K., Amri, A., Kabir, H., Haque, M. M., Mondinos, N., Altarawneh, M., & Dlugogorski, B. Z. (2016). Chemical bonding states and solar selective characteristics of unbalanced magnetron sputtered Ti_xM_1-x-yN_y films. RSC Advances, 6(43), 36373-36383. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ra02550a

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