Effect of substrate roughness and material selection on the microstructure of sputtering deposited boron carbide thin films

Chung-Chuan Lai, Robert Boyd, Per-Olof Svensson +4

Amorphous boron carbide (B4C) thin films are by far the most popular form for the neutron converting layers in the 10B-based neutron detectors, which are a rising trend in detector…