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Record W4409469096 · doi:10.1088/1361-6641/adccf2

Investigation of terbium-doped silicon oxide thin films: comparison of TEM images prepared by FIB and mechanical methods

2025· article· en· W4409469096 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSemiconductor Science and Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSemiconductor materials and devices
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversityUniversity of New Brunswick
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNew Brunswick Innovation Foundation
KeywordsTerbiumDopingMaterials scienceSiliconOxideSilicon oxideThin filmNanotechnologyOptoelectronicsMetallurgySilicon nitrideLuminescence

Abstract

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Abstract This study characterizes the optical and structural properties of terbium-doped oxygen-rich silicon oxide (ORSO:Tb) thin films and investigates focused ion beam (FIB)-induced damage on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) lamellae prepared from these films. While there are significant advantages to the FIB technique, there is a potential that energetic ions used during the FIB process can damage the lamellae. A comparative analysis of TEM images obtained using FIB and conventional mechanical preparation methods was performed. The results indicate that TEM images of FIB-prepared lamellae exhibit higher resolution, allowing for a more detailed examination of nanocrystal structures and quantum dots. In contrast, the lack of sufficient clarity of the mechanically prepared TEM images reduces the number of nanocrystals visible in the field of view, resulting in a less effective and detailed study of the thinned films. We found no evidence of Ga implantation or mixing into the thinned film, and no observable FIB-induced damage such as recrystallization, or amorphization. Photoluminescence spectra exhibited red and blue shifts with increasing annealing temperature at blue and green emissions, respectively. X-ray diffraction patterns verify that the formation of crystalline nanostructures begins at 1100 °C, and at least at 1200 °C, two phases of Tb 4 Si 3 (SiO 4 )O 10 and Tb 2 O 3 in the sample are recognized.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.520

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.304
Teacher spread0.286 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it