A novel TiO/NiO multilayer mirror based on an atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) technique has been designed to realize a
high reflective mirror and an attosecond chirped mirror in soft x-rays "water-window" wavelengths region. The layer
thickness should be controlled on an atomic scale, but in ALE, according to a self-limiting mechanism which is found in
the fabrication of oxide thin films, the epitaxial growth is automatically stopped at strictly 1 monolayer (ML) in one
alternative precursor dosing. An oxide multilayer is also expected to overcome serious problems such as scattering loss
at interfaces of the multilayer. TiO and NiO are an exquisite combination which has the potential to make their
superlattice on a MgO substrate because each oxide has the NaCl structure of nearly equal lattice constant (TiO =
0.41766 nm, NiO = 0.41684 nm, MgO = 0.42112 nm). The theoretical calculation of a periodic multilayer mirror showed
the high reflectivity of over 50% at a wavelength of 2.73 nm and the incident angle of 18.9° from the normal incidence.
Additionary, reflective properties of ultrashort pulses induced to design a chirped structure stacked by blocks of several
multi-periodic structures, which must have a spectral bandwidth and a controlled phase to compress a temporal
broadening of the pulses down to a few hundreds of attoseconds. In this paper, we report the details of structures between
titanium oxide and nickel oxide, and properties both as a high reflection mirror and as a chirped mirror.
There have been significant progresses in atom optics utilizing laser cooling techniques in recent years. Among them, we have been interested in an atomic mirror for silicon which can reflect silicon atoms. The atomic mirror consists of two layers on a sapphire substrate, and then atoms are reflected by the dipole forces from evanescent waves caused by the light reflected internally and totally at the interface of different refractive indices. In this study, we have constructed some structures of the atomic mirror.
We tried atomic layer deposition techniques for preparation of both Al2O3 and TiO2 thin films, whose surface and interface roughnesses are well suppressed. In order to achieve the predicted enhancement of the evanescent waves, atomic layer deposition of the layer with the higher refractive index is especially important. It has found that absorption can be suppressed considerably by adding Al(CH3)3 precursor gas to the alternate introducing cycle of TiCl4 and H2O2 precursor gases. We use this effect which can improve homogeneity and flatness of layers significantly, to design an atomic mirror using atomic layer deposition.
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