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Structural and magnetic properties of iron oxides in co-sputtered granularthin films
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2000
Abstract
Granular Fe-V2O5 thin films with different iron concentrations prepared by means of radiofrequency magnetron co-sputtering technique were investigated by means of X-ray diffraction, Transmission Electron Microscopy and 57Fe Mössbauer spectrometry as a function of iron concentration. A common experimental feature reveals that a percolation-like threshold occurs at around 23−25% atomic Fe. Below such a critical value, the co-sputtering process favours the presence of ultrafine amorphous oxide grains with sizes lower than 10 nm embedded in a vanadium oxide matrix. Above, one clearly observes the presence of fine grains (sizes comprised between 10−100 nm) composed of either hematite or maghemite phases dispersed in the same matrix, the set displaying a magnetic order at room temperature.
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- The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , February 2000 , pp. 125 - 130
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- © EDP Sciences, 2000
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