In Situ Conductance of Fe/Si and Fe/Ge Multilayers

• Authors: P. Chomiuk , M. Błaszyk , T. Luciński , M. Wróblewski , B. Susła
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper we study Fe/Si and Fe/Ge multilayers prepared at room temperature by magnetron sputtering. In situ conductance measurements reveal the formation of interfacial Fe-Si and Fe-Ge mixtures. During the Fe deposition a modification of growth mode is noticed. Deposition of Si (or Ge) onto Fe leads to the reduction of the Fe layer thickness due to interdiffusion, and Fe-Si (or Fe-Ge) structures appear. Above about 1.3 nm of deposited Si (1.5 nm of Ge) nominally pure Si (Ge) starts growing. Surface topography of the Fe/Si multilayers is studied by atomic force microscopy.

Keywords

EN

73.40.Sx; 73.50.-h; 75.70.Cn

Discipline

• 73.50.-h: Electronic transport phenomena in thin films(for electronic transport in mesoscopic systems, see 73.23.-b; see also 73.40.-c Electronic transport in interface structures; for electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures, see 73.63.-b)
• 75.70.Cn: Magnetic properties of interfaces (multilayers, superlattices, heterostructures)
• 73.40.Sx: Metal-semiconductor-metal structures

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 113
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 657-662

Dates

published

2008-02

received

2007-05-07

Contributors

author

P. Chomiuk

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

author

M. Błaszyk

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

author

T. Luciński

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

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M. Wróblewski

• Institute of Physics, Faculty of Technical Physics, PoznańUniversity of Technology, Nieszawska 13a, 60-965 Poznań, Poland

author

B. Susła

• Institute of Physics, Faculty of Technical Physics, PoznańUniversity of Technology, Nieszawska 13a, 60-965 Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.113.657