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Microstructure and phase formation of Heusler thin film compounds

  • Jürgen Thomas EMAIL logo , Joachim Schumann , Maria Dománková und Thomas Gemming
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International Journal of Materials Research
Aus der Zeitschrift International Journal of Materials Research Band 96 Heft 9

Abstract

Heusler compounds are promising materials to be applied effectively as highly spin-polarized medium (or components) in spintronic devices. To prove their chances the microstructure, the phase formation, and the chemical homogeneity of sputtered thin films of Co2MnSi and Co2Cr0.6Fe0.4Al were studied by in-situ TEM observations as well as by analytical characterizations. The observed grain growth and phase formation in dependence on temperature agrees well with the results of measurements of the film resistivity. The chemical homogeneity varies and depends on the deposition process during thin film preparation, especially the incorporation of oxygen is an unwanted effect.

Keywords: In-situ TEM; Spintronics; Heusler compounds; Analytical TEM
Dr. Jürgen Thomas IFW Dresden, Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden PF 27 01 16, D-01171 Dresden, Germany Tel.: +49 351 4659 250 Fax: +49 351 4659 452

Dedicated to Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Klaus Wetzig on the occasion of his 65th birthday

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Received: 2005-04-15
Accepted: 2005-06-14
Published Online: 2022-02-16

© 2005 Carl Hanser Verlag, München

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  2. Kösterpreis
  3. Award/Preisverleihung
  4. Editorial
  5. Editorial
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  13. Local texture and back-end defect in hot extruded AZ91 magnesium alloy
  14. A comparison of thermal stability in nanocrystalline Ni- and Co-based materials
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  16. Correlation between the average composition of coherent superlattice and the GMR properties of electrodeposited Co–Cu/Cu multilayers
  17. Articles Basic
  18. Towards a description of complex pearlite structures
  19. Modeling of axial strain in free-end torsion of textured copper
  20. Vacancies in plastically deformed copper
  21. An analytic and generalized formulation of the sin2 ψ-method
  22. Nanoindentation applied on a tungsten–copper composite before and after high-pressure torsion
  23. Articles Applied
  24. The local deformation behaviour of MMCs – an experimental study
  25. X-ray elastic constants determined by the combination of sin2 ψ and substrate-curvature methods
  26. Combining complementary techniques to study precipitates in steels
  27. Precipitation hardening in Mg–Zn–Sn alloys with minor additions of Ca and Si
  28. Notifications/Mitteilungen
  29. Personal
https://doi.org/10.1515/ijmr-2005-0176
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In-situ TEM; Spintronics; Heusler compounds; Analytical TEM

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Kösterpreis
  3. Award/Preisverleihung
  4. Editorial
  5. Editorial
  6. Articles Basic
  7. Effect of interface strength on electromigration-induced inlaid copper interconnect degradation: Experiment and simulation
  8. Application of factor analysis in electron spectrometry (AES, XPS) for materials science
  9. Focussing and defocussing effects at radio frequency glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy analyses of thin films with partly nonconductive components
  10. Semi-flexible star-shaped molecules: conformational analysis of nano-segregated mesogens forming columnar liquid-crystal phases
  11. Articles Applied
  12. Structure, properties and applications of diamond-like carbon coatings prepared by reactive magnetron sputtering
  13. Local texture and back-end defect in hot extruded AZ91 magnesium alloy
  14. A comparison of thermal stability in nanocrystalline Ni- and Co-based materials
  15. Microstructure and phase formation of Heusler thin film compounds
  16. Correlation between the average composition of coherent superlattice and the GMR properties of electrodeposited Co–Cu/Cu multilayers
  17. Articles Basic
  18. Towards a description of complex pearlite structures
  19. Modeling of axial strain in free-end torsion of textured copper
  20. Vacancies in plastically deformed copper
  21. An analytic and generalized formulation of the sin2 ψ-method
  22. Nanoindentation applied on a tungsten–copper composite before and after high-pressure torsion
  23. Articles Applied
  24. The local deformation behaviour of MMCs – an experimental study
  25. X-ray elastic constants determined by the combination of sin2 ψ and substrate-curvature methods
  26. Combining complementary techniques to study precipitates in steels
  27. Precipitation hardening in Mg–Zn–Sn alloys with minor additions of Ca and Si
  28. Notifications/Mitteilungen
  29. Personal
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