Supporting information for
Tuning the Interfacial Reaction between Bismuth-containing Sealing
Glasses and Cr-containing Interconnect: Effect of ZnO
Qi Zhang1, Lihua Fang1, Maria J. Pascual2, Jie Shen1 and Teng Zhang1,*
1College
of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108,
China.
2Instituto
de Cerámica y Vidrio (CSIC), Kelsen 5, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
List of figures
Fig.S1 XRD pattern of glasses held in air at 600 ºC for 9 hours.
Fig.S2 XRD pattern of glasses held in air at 700 ºC for one hour.
Fig.S3 SEM micrographs of glass-ceramics, held in air at 700 ºC for 700 hours, for (a)
BZ1 and (c) BZ4, (b) and (d) are EDS elemental mappings for Bi, Al, Zn, Ca, Si, Sr
and O in (a) and (c), respectively.
List of tables
Table S1 The assignments of vibrational modes in Raman spectra.
Table S2 The assignments of vibrational modes in FT-IR spectra.
Table S3 EDS results of selected spots in Fig.S3 (in atom %).
Table S1 The assignments of vibrational modes in Raman spectra.
Wave number (cm-1)
vibrational mode
251~271
Zn–O tetrahedral bending vibrations of [ZnO4] units.1,2
355~372
Bi–O–Bi vibration of the distorted [BiO6] octahedral units.1
the Q3 units and/or the bending mode of B–O–B, B–O–Si, and Si–O–Si
linkages.3
467~508
584~595
B-O-Bi stretching vibrations in distorted linked [BiO6] octahedral units. 1,2
727~741
[BO4] tetrahedral units with non-bridging oxygen atoms.3,4
The peak around 900 cm-1 might be assigned for Q1 units,3 [BiO3] units5 as
896~904
well as Si-O-Zn bonds.6
Correlates to the combined stretching vibrations modes of [SiO4] and [BO4]
964~980
unit.7,8
1182~1189
Q4 units9 and diborate groups.3
1382~1391
vibrations of B-O- bond in triangular [BO3] borate units.10
Table S2 The assignments of vibrational modes in FT-IR spectra.
Wave number (cm-1)
vibrational mode
Stretching vibrations of Bi-O bonds in strongly distorted [BiO6] octahedral
485~497
units.5,11,12
Si-O-B bending vibrations13, Bi-O bonds in [BiO3],5 and the bending
670~739
stretching vibrations [BO3].14
862~867
Bi-O symmetric stretch vibration in [BiO3].5,12
930~934
asymmetric stretching vibrational modes of mixed Si-O-B bridges.13
979~997
B-O-B stretch vibration in [BO4].5,15
1047~1058
stretching vibrations of Si-O- bonds of [SiO4] containing Q1 species.13
1208~1216
B-O− non-bridging stretching in [BO3]. 5,13,15
1382~1372
Stretching vibrations of bridging oxygens (BO) of [BO3] triangles.3
Stretching vibrations of Non-bridging oxygen (NBO) of [BO3] triangles.3
1478
OH bending mode of vibration.15
1634~1626
Table S3 EDS results of selected spots in Fig.S3 (in atom %).
Spots
Al
Si
Ca
Zn
Sr
Bi
1
2
3
4
5
6
2
15
38
2
14
35
29
31
37
31
32
40
20
17
2
24
19
3
5
10
0
2
12
1
9
23
22
7
20
19
35
1
1
34
2
1
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