Asymmetric Interfaces in Epitaxial Off-Stoichiometric Fe3+xSi1−x/Ge/Fe3+xSi1−x Hybrid Structures: Effect on Magnetic and Electric Transport Properties Научная публикация
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Nanomaterials
, E-ISSN: 2079-4991 |
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Вых. Данные | Год: 2022, Том: 12, Номер: 1, Номер статьи : 131, Страниц : 21 DOI: 10.3390/nano12010131 | ||||||||||||||
Ключевые слова | Dislocation lattices; Epitaxial stress; FMR; Germanium; Iron silicide; Lattice distortion; Molecular beam epitaxy; Rutherford backscattering; Spintronics | ||||||||||||||
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Three-layer iron-rich Fe3+xSi1−x/Ge/Fe3+xSi1−x (0.2 < x <0.64) heterostructures on a Si(111) surface with Ge thicknesses of 4 nm and 7 nm were grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Systematic studies of the structural and morphological properties of the synthesized samples have shown that an increase in the Ge thickness causes a prolonged atomic diffusion through the interfaces, which significantly increases the lattice misfits in the Ge/Fe3+xSi1−x heterosystem due to the incorporation of Ge atoms into the Fe3+x Si1−x bottom layer. The resultant lowering of the total free energy caused by the development of the surface roughness results in a transition from an epitaxial to a polycrystalline growth of the upper Fe3+x Si1−x. The average lattice distortion and residual stress of the upper Fe3+xSi1−x were determined by electron diffraction and theoretical calculations to be equivalent to 0.2 GPa for the upper epitaxial layer with a volume misfit of −0.63% compared with a undistorted counterpart. The volume misfit follows the resultant interatomic misfit of |0.42|% with the bottom Ge layer, independently determined by atomic force microscopy. The variation in structural order and morphology significantly changes the magnetic properties of the upper Fe3+x Si1−x layer and leads to a subtle effect on the transport properties of the Ge layer. Both hysteresis loops and FMR spectra differ for the structures with 4 nm and 7 nm Ge layers. The FMR spectra exhibit two distinct absorption lines corresponding to two layers of ferromagnetic Fe3+x Si1−x films. At the same time, a third FMR line appears in the sample with the thicker Ge. The angular dependences of the resonance field of the FMR spectra measured in the plane of the film have a pronounced easy-axis type anisotropy, as well as an anisotropy corresponding to the cubic crystal symmetry of Fe3+x Si1−x, which implies the epitaxial orientation relationship of Fe3+x Si1−x (111)[0−11] || Ge(111)[1−10] || Fe3+x Si1−x (111)[0−11] || Si(111)[1−10]. Calculated from ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) data saturation magnetization exceeds 1000 kA/m. The temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity of a Ge layer with thicknesses of 4 nm and 7 nm is of semiconducting type, which is, however, determined by different transport mechanisms. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Библиографическая ссылка:
Tarasov A.S.
, Tarasov I.A.
, Yakovlev I.A.
, Rautskii M.V.
, Bondarev I.A.
, Lukyanenko A.V.
, Platunov M.S.
, Volochaev M.N.
, Efimov D.D.
, Goikhman A.Y.
, Belyaev B.A.
, Baron F.A.
, Shanidze L.V.
, Farle M.
, Varnakov S.N.
, Ovchinnikov S.G.
, Volkov N.V.
Asymmetric Interfaces in Epitaxial Off-Stoichiometric Fe3+xSi1−x/Ge/Fe3+xSi1−x Hybrid Structures: Effect on Magnetic and Electric Transport Properties
Nanomaterials. 2022. V.12. N1. 131 :1-21. DOI: 10.3390/nano12010131 WOS Scopus РИНЦ CAPlusCA PMID OpenAlex СКИФ ID
Asymmetric Interfaces in Epitaxial Off-Stoichiometric Fe3+xSi1−x/Ge/Fe3+xSi1−x Hybrid Structures: Effect on Magnetic and Electric Transport Properties
Nanomaterials. 2022. V.12. N1. 131 :1-21. DOI: 10.3390/nano12010131 WOS Scopus РИНЦ CAPlusCA PMID OpenAlex СКИФ ID
Даты:
Поступила в редакцию: | 1 дек. 2021 г. |
Принята к публикации: | 26 дек. 2021 г. |
Опубликована online: | 31 дек. 2021 г. |
Опубликована в печати: | 1 янв. 2022 г. |
Идентификаторы БД:
Web of science: | WOS:000742468900001 |
Scopus: | 2-s2.0-85122027664 |
РИНЦ: | 47550770 |
Chemical Abstracts: | 2022:121535 |
Chemical Abstracts (print): | 181:181808 |
PMID (PubMed): | 35010081 |
OpenAlex: | W4206717645 |
СКИФ ID: | 1882 |