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Metallic Magnetic Thin Films

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Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is an advanced technique to grow single-crystalline films. In this chapter we survey the epitaxial growth of 3d transition magnetic metal and their alloy films via MBE. Several metastable structure phases are obtained in the ultrathin film. For example, the body-centered cubic (bcc) phase of Ni, which does not exist in nature, can be epitaxially grown on GaAs (001). It is found that the interface structure and film growth temperature play a crucial role in determining the film structure and magnetism. With these metastable structure phase and precisely controlled composition of 3d transition magnetic metal and their alloy films, we explore several interesting physics such as the origin of the extremely small magnetocrystalline anisotropy in permalloy and the correlation between the structure and magnetism in Co1−xMnx alloys.

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Wu, D., Jin, XF. (2021). Metallic Magnetic Thin Films. In: Coey, J.M.D., Parkin, S.S. (eds) Handbook of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63210-6_19

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