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February 21, 2022
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Comprehensive Model for the Transformation of Zinc Nitride Metastable Layers

Publicated to: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13 (47): 56655-56662 - 2021-12-01 13(47), DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c17578

Authors:

Ropero-Real, A; Gordillo, N; Pau, JL; Redondo-Cubero, A
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Affiliations

Univ Autonoma Madrid, Ctr Microanal Mat, Madrid 28049, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Aplicada, Elect & Semicond Grp, Madrid 28049, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Inst Nicolas Cabrera, Madrid 28049, Spain - Author
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Abstract

In this work, we performed systematic studies on the oxidation of zinc nitride metastable layers using a climate chamber with controlled temperature and relative humidity. The electrical properties of the samples were in situ analyzed using a programmable microprocessor with a voltage divider, while the structural and optical properties were ex situ measured by scanning electron microscopy, elastic recoil detection analysis, and spectroscopic ellipsometry. Our results show that zinc nitride transformation proceeds in a top-down way, with a progressive substitution of N by O, which leads to the formation of pores and a remarkable swelling effect. The overall behavior is well explained by a universal logistic growth model. Considering this model, we successfully fabricated and tested a zinc nitride-based dehydration sensor for biomedical applications.
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Keywords

erda-tofoxidationrelative humiditysputteringErda-tofFilmsOxidationRelative humiditySputteringZinc nitride

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 49/345, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Materials Science, Multidisciplinary.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-05:

  • WoS: 7
  • Scopus: 6
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 2.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 2 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 7.
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/714179
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Ropero-Real, A) and Last Author (REDONDO CUBERO, ANDRES).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been REDONDO CUBERO, ANDRES.

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Awards linked to the item

This research was supported by the MINECO (CTQ2017-84309-C2-2-R) and the Comunidad de Madrid (TransNanoAvansens ref P2018/NMT4349). The authors acknowledge the service from the MiNa Laboratory at IMN and the funding from CM (project SpaceTec, S2013/ICE2822). ARR acknowledges the Master-UAM 2020 fellowship. A.R.C. acknowledges the Ramon y Cajal program under contract RYC-2015-18047.
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