1. High Ms Fe16N2 thin film with Ag under layer on GaAs substrate.
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Xiaowei Zhang, Yanfeng Jiang, Meiyin Yang, Allard, Lawrence F., and Jian-Ping Wang
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THIN film research , *SILVER , *GALLIUM arsenide - Abstract
(001) textured Fe16N2 thin film with Ag under layer is successfully grown on GaAs substrate using a facing target sputtering (FTS) system. After post annealing, chemically ordered Fe16N2 phase is formed and detected by X-ray diffraction (XRD). High saturation magnetization (Ms) is measured by a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). In comparison with Fe16N2 with Ag under layer on MgO substrate and Fe16N2 with Fe under layer on GaAs substrate, the current layer structure shows a higher Ms value, with a magnetically softer feature in contrast to the above cases. In addition, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is performed to characterize the binding energy of N atoms. To verify the role of strain that the FeN layer experiences in the above three structures, Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction (GIXRD) is conducted to reveal a large in-plane lattice constant due to the in-plane biaxial tensile strain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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