Speaker
Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution
Chris Theron
Level for award<br> (Hons, MSc, <br> PhD)?
PhD
Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> award (Yes / No)?
no
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?
Yes
Abstract content <br> (Max 300 words)<br><a href="http://events.saip.org.za/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=0&confId=34" target="_blank">Formatting &<br>Special chars</a>
The reactions between Pd thin films deposited by resistive evaporation on Si and 6H-SiC substrates have been investigated by Raman, Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) and glancing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD). The deposited films were subsequently annealed from 100 to 800°C. At room temperature, no silicides were detected to have formed in either couple. After annealing, a reaction zone was formed between Pd and the two substrates. Pd starts to react with Si at 200°C while at 400°C with SiC. The initial phase to form in Pd-Si couples was Pd2Si and in Pd-SiC samples were Pd4Si and Pd9Si2. These initial phases formed were theoretically predicted by the binary and ternary effective heat of formation (EHF) models and the experimental results corroborate this.
