• Title/Summary/Keyword: Epitaxial films

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Epitaxial Growth of Pulsed-Laser Deposited Bi4Ti3O12/LaAlO3 Thin Films and Bi4Ti3O12/YBa2Cu3O7-x/LaAlO3 Heterostructure (펄스레이저 증착법으로 제작된 $Bi_4Ti_3O_{12}/LaAlO_3$ 박막과 $Bi_4Ti_3O_{12}/YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x}/LaAlO_3$ 복합구조의 에피 성장)

  • Jo, Wol-Ryeom;Jo, Hak-Ju;No, Tae-Won
    • Korean Journal of Crystallography
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 1994
  • Ferroelectric Bi4Ti3012 thin films have been grown on LaAlO(001) by Pulsed-laser deposition. Phase formation and structural films prepared of the films prepared at varigus deposition temperatures are investigated using x-ray diffraction The film grown at 740℃ shows epitaxial growth behavior with c-akis normal to the substrate. N2tBmstiucCures of Bi4Ti3012/YBa2Cu307-x/LaAIO3(001) have been in-situ grown. Even though the a-and b-axes of the Yba2Cu307-x layer show epitaxial growth behavior.

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Chemisorption of CO on ultrathin epitaxial Ni films n Cu(001) surface

  • E.K. Hwang;J.J. Oh;Lee, J.S.;Kim, S.K.;Kim, J.S.;Kim, J.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 1999.07a
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    • pp.182-182
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    • 1999
  • The chemisorption effect of CO on the Ni/Cu(001) surface was investigated using LEED(Low Energy Electron Diffraction) and EELS(Electron Energy Loss Spectrscopy0 under the UHV conditions. after mounting the Cu(001) single crystal in the UHV chamber (base pressure 1$\times$10-10Torr), a clean surface was obtained after a few cycles of repeated Ar+ ion sputtering and annealing at about 40$0^{\circ}C$. The epitaxial thin Ni films were formed on the Cu(001) by evaporation from 99.999% Ni block. The pseudomorphic growth and the orderness of the thin Ni films were monitored by c(2$^{\circ}C$2) LEED pattern. CO adlayers on Ni epitaxial thin films were prepared by dosing pure CO has through a leak valve. After CO adsorpton at room temperature, two pairs of peaks were observed by EELS, whose relative intensities are changed as the film thickness is varied and time is elapsed. These two pair of peaks are likely related to different bonding sites (-top and bridge sites) of C-Ni as well as C-O vibration. Experimental results and qualitative interpretation of the spectra wille be discussed. The possibility of using EELS in combination with probe species (CO) to investigate the nature of thin film growth is mentioned. We will report the experimental result of O2 dosage on Ni film and interaction of CO and O2.

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Amorphous Cr-Ti Texture-inducing Layer Underlying (002) Textured bcc-Cr alloy Seed Layer for FePt-C Based Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording Media

  • Jeon, Seong-Jae;Hinata, Shintaro;Saito, Shin
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.35-39
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    • 2016
  • $Cr_{100-x}Ti_x$ amorphous texture-inducing layers (TIL) were investigated to realize highly (002) oriented $L1_0$ FePt-C granular films through hetero-epitaxial growth on the (002) textured bcc-$Cr_{80}Mn_{20}$ seed layer (bcc-SL). As-deposited TILs showed the amorphous phase in Ti content of $30{\leq}x(at%){\leq}75$. Particularly, films with $40{\leq}x{\leq}60$ kept the amorphous phase against the heat treatment over $600^{\circ}C$. It was found that preference of the crystallographic texture for bcc-SLs is directly affected by the structural phase of TILs. (002) crystallographic texture was realized in bcc-SLs deposited on the amorphous TILs ($40{\leq}x{\leq}70$), whereas (110) texture was formed in bcc-SLs overlying on crystalline TILs (x < 30 and x > 70). Correlation between the angular distribution of (002) crystal orientation of bcc-SL evaluated by full width at half maximum of (002) diffraction (FWHM) and a grain diameter of bcc-SL indicated that while the development of the lateral growth for bcc-SL grain reduces FWHM, crystallization of amorphous TILs hinders FWHM. $L1_0$ FePt-C granular films were fabricated under the substrate heating process over $600^{\circ}C$ with having different FWHM of bcc-SL. Hysteresis loops showed that squareness ($M_r/M_s$) of the films increased from 0.87 to 0.95 when FWHM of bcc-SL decreased from $13.7^{\circ}$ to $3.8^{\circ}$. It is suggested that the reduction of (002) FWHM affects to the overlying MgO film as well as FePt-C granular film by means of the hetero-epitaxial growth.

Features of Epitaxial Garnet Films for an Atomic Traps Technique

  • Berzhansky, V.N.;Vishnevskii, V.G.;Nedviga, A.S.;Nesteruk, A.G.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.108-113
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    • 2009
  • High-coercive garnet films have certain parameters suitable for creating reconfigurable magnetic atomic chips with visible geometry. However, the inner stresses and morphological properties, namely, networks of dislocations, layering and surface relief, and dependence of coercivity on thickness must be taken into account. Select features of films important for atomic trap creation have been studied experimentally and the supposed traps concept provided.

Epitaxial Overlayers vs Alloy Formation at Aluminum-Transition Metal Interfaces

  • Smith, R.J.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 1999.07a
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    • pp.29-29
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    • 1999
  • The synthesis of layered structures on the nanometer scale has become essential for continued improvements in the operation of various electronic and magnetic devices. Abrupt metal-metal interfaces are desired for applications ranging from metallization in semiconductor devices to fabrication of magnetoresistive tunnel junctions for read heads on magnetic disk drives. In particular, characterizing the interface structure between various transition metals (TM) and aluminum is desirable. We have used the techniques of MeV ion backscattering and channeling (HEIS), x-ray photoemission (ZPS), x-ray photoelectron diffraction(XPD), low-energy ion scattering (LEIS), and low-energy electron diffraction(LEED), together with computer simulations using embedded atom potentials, to study solid-solid interface structure for thin films of Ni, Fe, Co, Pd, Ti, and Ag on Al(001), Al(110) and Al(111) surfaces. Considerations of lattice matching, surface energies, or compound formation energies alone do not adequately predict our result, We find that those metals with metallic radii smaller than Al(e.g. Ni, Fe, Co, Pd) tend to form alloys at the TM-Al interface, while those atoms with larger atomic radii(e.g. Ti, Ag) form epitaxial overlayers. Thus we are led to consider models in which the strain energy associated with alloy formation becomes a kinetic barrier to alloying. Furthermore, we observe the formation of metastable fcc Ti up to a critical thickness of 5 monolayers on Al(001) and Al(110). For Ag films we observe arbitrarily thick epitaxial growth exceeding 30 monolayers with some Al alloying at the interface, possible driven by interface strain relief. Typical examples of these interface structures will be discussed.

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Epitaxial Growth of $BiFeO_3-Ba(Cu_{1/3}Nb_{2/3})O_3$ Thin Films Deposited by Pulsed Laser Deposition

  • Baek, Chang-U;Lee, Jong-Pil;Seong, Gil-Dong;Jeong, Jong-Hun;Ryu, Jeong-Ho;Yun, Un-Ha;Park, Dong-Su;Jeong, Dae-Yong
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.30.1-30.1
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    • 2011
  • Multiferroic thin films with composition $0.9BiFeO_3-0.1Ba(Cu_{1/3}Nb_{2/3})O_3$ were epitaxially grown by pulsed laser deposition on $SrRuO_3(001)/SrTiO_3$ (000) substrate $0.9BiFeO_3-0.1Ba(Cu_{1/3}Nb_{2/3})O_3$, which is assumed to be morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), that showed superior dielectric, ferroelectric and magnetic properties in our study on polycrystalline films. The structures of epitaxially grown films were characterized by means of XRD. From P-E measurements, samples exhibited typical ferroelectric hysteresis loops and large remnant polarization, whose value is much larger than those of pure BFO film. The enhancement of dielectric, ferroelectric, magnetic properties was attributed to the structural distortion induced by the BCN addition and the high physical stress effect.

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MBE-growth and Oxygen Pressure Dependent Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Fe3O4 Thin Films

  • Dung, Dang Duc;Feng, Wuwei;Sin, Yu-Ri-Mi;Thiet, Duong Van;Jo, Seong-Rae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.60-60
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    • 2011
  • Giant magnetoresistance (GMR), tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR), and magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) are currently active research areas in spintronics. The high magnetoresistance and the high spin polarization (P) of electrons in the ferromagnetic electrodes of tunnel junction or intermediate layers are required. Magnetite, Fe3O4, is predicted to possess as half-metallic nature, P ~ 100% spin polarization, and has a high Curie temperature (TC~850 K). Experiments demonstrated that the P~($80{\pm}5$)%, ~($60{\pm}5$)%, and ~40-55% for epitaxial (111), (110) and (001)-oriented Fe3O4 thin films, respectively. Epitaxial Fe3O4 films may enable us to investigate the effects of half metals on the spin transport without grain-boundary scattering.In addition, it has been reported that the Verwey transition (TV, a first order metal-insulator transition) of 120 K in bulk Fe3O4 is strongly affected by many parameters such as stoichiometry and stress, etc. Here we report that the growth modes, magnetism and transport properties of Fe3O4 thin films were strongly dependent on the oxygen pressure during film growth. The average roughness decreases from 1.021 to 0.263 nm for the oxygen pressure increase from $2.3{\times}10-7$ to $8.2{\times}10^{-6}$ Torr, respectively. The 120 K Verwey transition in Fe3O4 was disappeared for the sample grown under high oxygen pressure.

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