Scaling and Transfer Effects in Reactive Materials

• Applicants: Professorin Dr.-Ing. Anne Jung; Dr. Jörg Pezoldt
• Subject Area: Metallurgical, Thermal and Thermomechanical Treatment of Materials ; Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials ; Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Origins ; Thermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials
• Term: from 2019 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 426337931

• Final Report Year: 2024

Final Report Abstract

In this project methods and defines fundamental rules to control the self-sustained reaction propagation by structuring the reactive multilayers and modulating the embedding environment using the processing steps of semiconductor processing technology. As a model system Ni/Al was chosen with a given binary layer thickness. The effect of the lateral dimension, and the spatial arrangement on the propagation velocity and maximum temperature of the reaction front, and the phase formation was investigated. Different models were developed to simulate the characteristic properties like propagation velocity and maximum reaction temperature of the self-sustained reaction on substrates and in heterogeneous multimaterial systems to assist the design of the test chips and the interpretation of the results. The project addressed the following questions: What is the effect of lateral and vertical confinements and the related reaction path on the properties of the self-sustained reaction? How can free surfaces and a materials environment of locally adjusted thermal conductivities be exploited to control the reaction path? How does the structuring of reactive multilayer affect the reaction and heat propagation? Can general rules for reaction propagation and transfer be formulated? Can the gained knowledge be applied for joining process of chiplets? Beside the answer on the questions a new local deposition process for reactive multilayers was developed mimicking the limitations of the sputtering and lift-off technology. Focusing on scaling and transfer processes the project contributed to the investigation and formulation of fundamental rules as a precondition of reactive materials integration into joining technology for different application fields. Based on a developed technique of integrity realization of intermetallics formation by self-sustained reactions an application in the field of flexible and stretchable electronics as well as formation of wide band gap semiconductors are demonstrated.

Publications

• MSE 2020 – Material Science and Engineering, The Digital Conference of the German Materials Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde - DGM), Symposium F05 and F07: Materials with morphological imprinted transformations, 2020, Darmstadt, Germany.
  Anne Jung
  
• Influence of Initial Temperature and Convective Heat Loss on the Self-Propagating Reaction in Al/Ni Multilayer Foils. Materials, 14(24), 7815.
  Baloochi, Mostafa; Shekhawat, Deepshikha; Riegler, Sascha Sebastian; Matthes, Sebastian; Glaser, Marcus; Schaaf, Peter; Bergmann, Jean Pierre; Gallino, Isabella & Pezoldt, Jörg
  
• Silicon Carbide Formation in Reactive Silicon-Carbon Multilayers. Materials Science Forum, 1062, 44-48.
  Grieseler, Rolf; Gallino, Isabella; Duboiskaya, Natallia; Döll, Joachim; Shekhawat, Deepshikha; Reiprich, Johannes; Guerra, Jorge A.; Hopfeld, Marcus; Honig, Hauke L.; Schaaf, Peter & Pezoldt, Joerg
  
• Influence of environment on self-propagating reactions in Al/Ni multilayer foils. MRS Advances, 8(9), 477-483.
  Shekhawat, Deepshikha; Baloochi, Mostafa; Sudhahar, Dwarakesh; Raheja, Vishal Amarbhai; Döll, Joachim; Jacobs, Heiko O. & Pezoldt, Jörg
  
• Novel Gas Phase Route Toward Patterned Deposition of Sputter‐Free Pt/Al Nanofoils. Advanced Materials Technologies, 8(18).
  Isaac, Nishchay A.; Schlag, Leslie; Ispas, Adriana; Reiprich, Johannes; Soydan, Alper K.; Moreira, Pedro H. O.; Thiele, Sebastian; Aliabadian, Bardia; Flock, Dominik; Knauer, Andrea; Jiménez, Juan J.; Bund, Andreas; Morales, Francisco M.; Pezoldt, Jörg & Jacobs, Heiko O.
  
• Phase formation of cubic silicon carbide from reactive silicon–carbon multilayers. MRS Advances, 8(9), 494-498.
  Shekhawat, Deepshikha; Sudhahar, Dwarakesh; Döll, Joachim; Grieseler, Rolf & Pezoldt, Jörg
  
• 3C-SiC on Si substrates through transformation of Si and C multilayers, In: Book of Abstract from the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2024), 615-617.
  D. Sudhahar, N. Duboiskaya, J. Döll, J. Reiprich, T. Scheler, D. Shekhawat & J. Pezoldt
  
• Controlling reaction transfer between Al/Ni reactive multilayer elements on substrates. MRS Advances, 9(10), 784-789.
  Shekhawat, Deepshikha; Sulman, Muhammad; Breiter, Manuela & Pezoldt, Jörg
  
• Experimental‐Assisted Approach to Develop a Numerical Model for Simulating the Reaction Propagation in Reactive Multilayers. Advanced Engineering Materials, 27(3).
  Daneshpazhoonejad, Farshad; Glaser, Marcus; Hildebrand, Jörg; Bergmann, Jean Pierre & Jung, Anne
  
• Modelling reaction transfer velocities in disconnected compact heterogeneous multilayer reactive material systems. MRS Advances, 9(10), 797-802.
  Shekhawat, Deepshikha; Sindhani, Kashish; Raheja, Vishal A.; Baloochi, Mostafa; Isaac, Nishchay A. & Pezoldt, Jörg
  
• Simulation of Heat Transfer and Propagation Velocity for Different Heat Loss Conditions for Guided Propagation Fronts in Reactive Multilayer Foils. Advanced Engineering Materials, 27(3).
  Daneshpazhoonejad, Farshad; Shekhawat, Deepshikha; Döll, Joachim; Pezoldt, Jörg & Jung, Anne
  
• Controlling the reaction path of Ni/Al reactive multilayer on substrates. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1010, 178026.
  Shekhawat, Deepshikha; Sulman, Muhammad; Flock, Dominik; Ecke, Gernot; Glaser, Marcus; Döll, Joachim; Bergmann, Jean Pierre & Pezoldt, Jörg