Influence of thickness on microstructural and magnetic properties in Fe3O4 thin films produced by PLD
Influence of thickness on microstructural and magnetic properties in Fe3O4 thin films produced by PLD
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jmmm.2004.08.004
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发表时间:
2005-01-01
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2.7
通讯作者:
Esquinazi, P
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作者:
Bollero, A;Ziese, M;Esquinazi, P
The pulsed laser deposition technique has been used to produce magnetite (Fe3O4) films with thickness ranging front 26 to 320 nm grown on MgAl2O4 (100) substrates. Microstructural characterisation of the films has revealed enlarged grains with increasing thickness, i.e. deposition time. Magnetisation hysteresis loops have been rneasured at different temperatures in the range 25-300 K for three samples: two films with thickness of 26 and 320 rim deposited on MgAl2O2 (100) and, for comparison, a 30 nm thick film deposited on MgO (100). The evolution of the remanence and the coercivity with temperature shows significant differences between the thinner films and the thicker one which are explained in terms of the effect of the interfacial strain as well as the influence of the deposition time on the grain and the variation in the density of antiphase boundaries. All the studied films exhibit a minimum of the coercivity at about 130 K. the temperature at which the magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant K-1 vanishes for the bulk material. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.