Correlation Between Electrical Properties and Composition / Microstructure of Si-C-N Ceramics

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rp., Japan 285 Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 500 ©1998 Materials Research Society

Germany. The CK-spectra were obtained by using a high-energy toroidal grating monochromator in the electron yield mode. The energy range of the incident radiation was 270 - 330 eV, the resolution about 10- 3. Raman spectra at room temperature were recorded by a RFA 106 Raman accessory, Bruker, Germany. The Laser excitation was supplied by a Nd:YAG laser, operating with an average power of about 100 mW. Microstructural characterization was performed by transmission electron microscopy using a JEOL 4000 EX microscope, operating at 400 kV. The point resolution was 0.17 nm. For analytic characterization an electron energy-loss spectrometer (PEELS, Gatan 666) fitted to the microscope was used. Under optimized working conditions, an energy resolution of 0.80 eV was achieved. Finally, x-ray powder diffractometry was performed on a D 5000 powder diffractometer, Siemens, Germany. RESULTS Fig. 1 represents the electrical conductivity (Yd.c. measured at room temperature depending on the temperature and time of the heat-treatment in N2. Gd.c. increases with temperature by several orders of magnitude. Related to the phase composition, 3 temperature regions can be distinguished.

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In region I there exists only amorphous silicon carbonitride, which contains residual hydrogen (a-SiCN:H). It is assumed that the change of hybridization of the carbon causes the high increase of Gd.c in the temperature range up to 1300 0C. XANES-spectroscopy at the CK-edge shows an increasing content of sp -hybridized carbon (7t*-resonance at 285 eV characteristic for C=C bonds [7]) with increasing temperature (Fig. 2). In addition, the amount of C-H bonds (characteristic resonance at 288 eV [7]) is decreasing. The H-content measured by the 15N-method showed a decrease from 5 at.% to 286

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