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Fabrication And Characterization Of Cu-Co Alloy Nanoparticles Via Pulsed Laser Dewetting, Shaofang Fu

Masters Theses

The fabrication and characterization of Cu[Copper]-Co[Cobalt] alloy nanoparticles are addressed in this thesis. First, Cu-Co alloy thin films with total thickness of ~10 nm [nanometer] were deposited on both 100 nm SiO₂ [silicon dioxide] coated silicon wafers and quartz substrates using RF magnetron sputtering system. Three structures were studied in this work: (1) ~10 nm co-sputtered Cu-Co alloy thin film. (2) ~5 nm (at center) Cu thin film covered by ~5 nm (at center) Co thin film. (3) ~5 nm (at center) Co thin film covered by ~5 nm (at center) Cu thin film. In addition, ~10 nm pure …