HI,



You had better to use SiO2 or Si3N4 instead of Si. Forming SiNi is your
problem since the silicide is brittle. The SiO2(i.e. Thermal) can protect
from forming silicide for crystalization of NiTi.

This is just one possibility.

Good luck.



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