Influence of the Ag Content on the Natural and Thermal Induced Oxidation of Cu Thin Films
Maria C Carrupt, Ana P Serro, Ana P Piedade, Giovanni Sotgiu · 2024
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Maria Carrupt and co-authors wrote this 2024 study on how silver content shapes the aging of copper thin films. Such films serve in smart windows, batteries, and solar panels, and rust is their slow enemy. The team sprayed pure and silver-doped copper coatings, then aged them two ways: a year in room air, and a bake at two hundred degrees.
Pure copper films grew in a clean crystal form with a strong favored grain direction. Silver made the films shed water more and blurred that favored grain, above all after baking. Heat grew oxides of both metals, dropping surface energy and wetting further. The authors say the results help gauge how long coated devices will last in service.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maria C Carrupt, Ana P Serro, Ana P Piedade, Giovanni Sotgiu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |