Controlled growth and magnetic property of a-plane-oriented Mn3Sn thin films

Seungjun Oh; Tadashi Morita; Tomoki Ikeda; Masakiyo Tsunoda; Mikihiko Oogane; Yasuo Ando

doi:10.1063/1.5079688

AIP Advances (Mar 2019)

Controlled growth and magnetic property of a-plane-oriented Mn3Sn thin films

Seungjun Oh,
Tadashi Morita,
Tomoki Ikeda,
Masakiyo Tsunoda,
Mikihiko Oogane,
Yasuo Ando

Affiliations

Seungjun Oh: Future Technology Research Laboratory, ULVAC, Inc., Tsukuba 300-2635, Japan
Tadashi Morita: Future Technology Research Laboratory, ULVAC, Inc., Tsukuba 300-2635, Japan
Tomoki Ikeda: Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
Masakiyo Tsunoda: Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
Mikihiko Oogane: Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
Yasuo Ando: Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5079688
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 3
pp. 035109 – 035109-4

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Highly a-plane-oriented Mn3Sn thin films were grown on m-plane sapphire substrates with low-temperature grown Mn3+xSn buffer layers by sputtering deposition technique, and their crystallinity and magnetic properties were investigated by X-ray diffraction and SQUID magnetometer, respectively. The crystallographic orientations of Mn3Sn domains are found to be sensitively influenced by substrate temperature, thickness and composition ratio of Mn3+αSn buffer layer. The highly a-plane-oriented Mn3Sn film shows slightly different magnetization behavior from randomly oriented Mn3Sn film, while the saturation magnetization Ms and coercivity of the highly a-plane-oriented Mn3Sn film are corresponding to that of single crystal bulk.

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ISSN: 2158-3226 (Online)
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Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
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