Large-Pore Mesoporous Ho3Fe5O12 Thin Films with a Strong Room-Temperature Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy by Sol–Gel Processing
Large-Pore Mesoporous Ho3Fe5O12 Thin Films with a Strong Room-Temperature Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy by Sol–Gel Processing
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DOI:
10.1021/cm5003324
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发表时间:
2014-03
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
C. Suchomski;C. Reitz;D. Pajić;Z. Jagličić;I. Djerdj;T. Brezesinski
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作者:
C. Suchomski;C. Reitz;D. Pajić;Z. Jagličić;I. Djerdj;T. Brezesinski
We report the evaporation-induced self-assembly synthesis of large-pore mesoporous thin films of ferrimagnetic holmium iron garnet (Ho3Fe5O12) from nitrate salt precursors and a polyisobutylene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) polymer structure-directing agent. The phase composition, atomic bonding configuration, and pore structure of the top surface and the interior of the films were investigated by microscopy, scattering, and spectroscopy techniques, including synchrotron-based grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (including Rietveld refinement), and others. The data provide evidence that the sol–gel-derived material is single-phase garnet with 27 nm diameter crystallites and few defects after being heated to 850 °C in air, and the continuous network of pores averaging 23 nm in diameter is preserved to a large extent, despite a solid–solid conversion from metastable h-HoFeO3 to Ho3Fe5O12 during the crystallization process. Furthermore, dc magnetom...