Author(s) |
Biswas, A.;Sampathkumar, R.;Kumar, A.;Bhattacharyya, D.;Sahoo,N.
K.;Lagoo, K. D.;Veerapur, R. D.;Padmanabhan, M.;Puri, R.
K.;Bhattacharya, D.;Singh, S.;Basu, S. (A&MPD;DRHR;SSPD)
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Neutron
supermirrors and supermirror polarizers are thin film multilayer based
devices which are used for reflecting and polarizing neutrons in various
neutron based experiments. In the present communication, the in-house
development of a 9 m long in-line dc sputtering system has been
described which is suitable for deposition of neutron supermirrors on
large size (1500 mm × 150 mm) substrates and in large numbers. The
optimisation process of deposition of Co and Ti thin film, Co/Ti
periodic multilayers, and a-periodic supermirrors have also been
described. The system has been used to deposit thin film multilayer
supermirror polarizers which show high reflectivity up to a reasonably
large critical wavevector transfer of ~0.06 Å−1 (corresponding to m
= 2.5, i.e., 2.5 times critical wavevector transfer of natural Ni). The
computer code for designing these supermirrors has also been developed
in-house. |