I'm trying to increase roughness of TiO2 film. I purchased TiO2 films(thickness around 350nm) and I would like to increase roughness of film. Currently it shows roughness of 1nm. I want to control it to maximum 20nm.
The surface roughness of TiO2 thin films increases as the annealing temperature increase. In order to increasing TiO2 roughness, firstly, try to deposit it on substrate ,then annealing at 500 oC.You can adopt both SEM and AFM to investigate properties of TiO2 thin film.
I agree with opinion view of my colleague Dr. Hussan, and I add, must choose a suitable solvent to get on colloid from TiO2 before deposed it on substrate..... Note: The used of water is different the produced particle size compared with using ethanol, so ethanol shall increase the agglomerate of crystals to give large particle size.