1 Effects of Annealing Effects of Annealing • SEM surface morphology SEM surface morphology of porous alumina of porous alumina substrates sputtered substrates sputtered with 20 nm Ni. with 20 nm Ni. – (a) As sputtered smooth (a) As sputtered smooth surface before annealing. surface before annealing. – (b) After annealing at (b) After annealing at 500 500 o C under H C under H 2 for two for two hours. hours. – The continuous nickel The continuous nickel thin film transformed to thin film transformed to uniformly distributed uniformly distributed nano-sized particles. nano-sized particles. (a ) (b )