• 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.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.42-44
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• 2012

We have studied a means to control the composition of nickel-iron thin films. By changing current and voltage applied to a electroplating electrolyte we could manipulate the relative concentration of nickel and iron in the thin films, which caused variations of coercivity, squareness, and saturation magnetic field. As we increase the content of iron in the thin films by using potentiostatic and galvanostatic plating, the grain size was increased and the coercivity was reduced.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.141-146
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• 2011

We will introduce the surface magneto-optic Kerr effect (SMOKE), which is one of the most helpful experimental methods in the area of surface magnetism for the last two decades. The basic magnetic characteristics of magnetic thin film is the most essential part for the further understanding and application. For example, the possibility of the realization of ferromagnetism for a single layer of iron, its Curie temperature far below that of bulk iron, and the direction of easy axis are the fundamental questions for the spintronic application. SMOKE is an efficient method to answer for the questions above.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.7.1-7.1
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• 2011

Nanoporous templates have been widely used for the development of new functional nanostructured materials suitable for electronics, optics, magnetism, and energy storage materials. We have prepared nanoporous templates by using thin films of mixtures of polystyrene-block-poly (methyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PMMA) and PMMA homopolymers. These templates have cylindrical nanoholes spanning the entire thickness of the film. Some applications of nanoporous templates are introduced: a) anti-reflective coating, b) the preparation of conducting polymer nanowires of poly (pyrrole), poly (3,4-ethylenedioxy-thiopene) onto a glass coated with indium-tin-oxide, and c) the separation membranes for biomaterials. We found that when the pore fraction of nanoholes in the film was ~0.68, almost zero reflectance at a specific wavelength, which can be changed with film thickness, was achieved at visible wavelengths Furthermore, ultra high density array of conducting nanowires was successfully prepared onto various substrates including flexible polymer. Due to highly alignment of polymer chain along the nanowire direction, the conductivity was much increased. Furthermore, these nanoporous films were found to be very effective for the separation of human Rhinovirus type 14 (HRV 14), major pathogen of a common cold in humans, from the buffer solution. We also found that when the pore size was effectively controlled down to 6 nm, a single file diffusion was observed.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.41-48
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• 2017

Recent study shows that ordered alloy of $L1_2$ $XPt_3$ (M = V, Cr, Mn, Co, and Fe) exhibits various magnetic phases such as ferromagnetic-to-antiferromagnetic transition at the $MnPt_3$ surface. Moreover, it has been argued that $CrPt_3$, in particular, possess large magnetocrystalline anisotropy and Kerr rotation with possible violation of Hund's rule. As such, we extend our work to thickness dependence of the magnetic structure of $CrPt_3$ thin film using density functional theory. Magnetic ground state of the bulk $CrPt_3$ turns out to be ferromagnetic (FM), where other magnetic phases such as A-type (A-AF), C-type (C-AF), and G-type antiferromagnetic (G-AF) state have higher total energies than FM by 0.517, 0.591, and 0.183 eV, respectively, and magnetic moments of Cr in bulk are respectively 2.807 (FM), 2.805 (A-AF), 2.794 (C-AF) and $2.869_{{\mu}_B}$ (G-AF). We extend our study to $CrPt_3$(001) thin films with CrPt-and Pt-termination. The thickness and surface-termination dependences of magnetism are investigated for 3-9 monolayers (ML), where different magnetic phases from bulk emerge: C-AF for CrPt-terminated 3 ML and G-AF for Pt-terminated 5 ML have energy difference relative to FM by 8 and 54 meV, respectively. Furthermore, thickness- and surface-termination-dependent magnetocrystalline anisotropies of the $CrPt_3$(001) films are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.81-81
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• 2012

XMCD (X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism)는 원형 편광 X-선의 helicity 방향이 시료의 자화 방향과 평행, 또는 반평행할 때 시료의 색이 바뀌는 현상, 즉 흡수율이 달라지는 현상이다. XMCD측정이 가지는 장점은 첫째, 이 실험이 특정 원소의 흡수선에서 이루어지기 때문에 시료 전체에서 특정 원소에 의한 자기적 성질을 분리해서 측정할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 같은 원소라 하더라도 다른 화학적 환경에 있는 원자들의 자기적 성질의 분리가 가능하다는 점이다. 이러한 성질로 인해 XMCD는 다른 원소들로 이루어진 다층 박막(GMR, TMR 등의 자기저항박막 구조물)의 층별 자기적 성질 연구 및 신자성물질의 자기적 성질의 고유성 연구에 많이 이용되었다. XMCD가 가지는 두 번째 장점은 sum rule을 통하여 자기 모멘트의 두 가지 성분인 궤도 모멘트(orbital moment)와 스핀 모멘트(spin moment)의 구별이 가능하다는 점이다. 이러한 장점은 수직자기 메모리 연구 및 스핀과 격자 간의 상호작용이 중요한 역할을 하는 다강체 등의 연구에 많이 이용되어 왔다. XMCD 측정이 또 다른 장점이 될 수 있는 것은 표면에 대단히 민감하다는 점이다. VSM, SQUID 등의 측정방법으로는 시료의 체적이 대단히 작은 수 ${\AA}$ 정도의 초박막에 대해서는 충분한 민감도를 가질 수 없다. 그러나, XMCD의 측정 깊이는 수십 ${\AA}$ 정도로 표면에 민감하기 때문에 이러한 초박막에 대해서도 충분한 민감도를 가질 수 있어서 SMOKE(Surface Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect)와 표면 자성연구에 있어서 독보적인 장치로 이용되어 왔다. 이러한 장점으로 인해 XMCD는 1990년대 이후 분광학적으로 활발히 이용되어 왔을 뿐만 아니라, 대단히 빠르고 신호가 큰 현상이기 때문에 최근 들어서는 자구(magnetic domain) 관찰 등을 목적으로 한 자기 현미경 및 자기현상의 동역학 연구에도 많이 응용되고 있다. 이 강연에서는 이러한 X-선 자기 원형 이색성 현상의 원리 및 실험 방법 등을 설명하겠다. 또한 몇 가지 X-선 자기 원형 이색성을 이용한 최근 몇 가지 연구도 소개하려 한다.