Royal Society of Chemistry, Nanoscale, 22(13), p. 10092-10099, 2021
DOI: 10.1039/d0nr08921d
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Oxygen incorporation from the residual H2O present in the reactor background is a long-standing issue in transition metal nitride films. Energetic ions can abstract H2O from surface and later radicals reduce the metal atom to +3 oxidation state.