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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2014.18.3.638

Physical correlation between annealing process and crystal structure and magneto-resistance of Bismuth thin films  

Jang, Seok Woo (Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Anyang University)
Seo, Young-Ho (College of Liberal Arts, Kwangwoon University)
An, Ho-Myoung (Department of Digital Electronics, Osan University)
Abstract
In this study, we investigate on the crystal microstructure and magneto-resistance (MR) change of Bismuth(Bi) thin films for annealing process, in order to apply Bi thin films to the spin electronic devices. As-prepared Bi thin films show the randomly oriented find grains whose size was measured to about 100 nm and the very low MR (4.7 % at room temperature) while careful annealing results in not only grain growth up to ${\sim}2{\mu}m$ but also drastic MR improvement (404 % at room temperature). The drastic change in the MR after applying the annealing process is attributed to the grain growth decreasing grain boundary scattering of electron. Therefore, in this study, we confirm the annealing effect for the grain boundary formation and MR improvement of Bi thin films, and demonstrate the feasibility of spin electronic devices.
Keywords
Annealing; Bismuth(Bi); Grain boundary; Magneto-resistance;
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