Impact of Strain and Morphology on Magnetic Properties of Fe3O4/NiO Bilayers Grown on Nb:SrTiO3(001) and MgO(001)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. LEED/XPS
3.2. XRR/XRD
3.3. VSM
4. Discussion
5. Conclutions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Kuschel, O.; Pathé, N.; Schemme, T.; Ruwisch, K.; Rodewald, J.; Buss, R.; Bertram, F.; Kuschel, T.; Kuepper, K.; Wollschläger, J. Impact of Strain and Morphology on Magnetic Properties of Fe3O4/NiO Bilayers Grown on Nb:SrTiO3(001) and MgO(001). Materials 2018, 11, 1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11071122
Kuschel O, Pathé N, Schemme T, Ruwisch K, Rodewald J, Buss R, Bertram F, Kuschel T, Kuepper K, Wollschläger J. Impact of Strain and Morphology on Magnetic Properties of Fe3O4/NiO Bilayers Grown on Nb:SrTiO3(001) and MgO(001). Materials. 2018; 11(7):1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11071122
Chicago/Turabian StyleKuschel, Olga, Nico Pathé, Tobias Schemme, Kevin Ruwisch, Jari Rodewald, Ralph Buss, Florian Bertram, Timo Kuschel, Karsten Kuepper, and Joachim Wollschläger. 2018. "Impact of Strain and Morphology on Magnetic Properties of Fe3O4/NiO Bilayers Grown on Nb:SrTiO3(001) and MgO(001)" Materials 11, no. 7: 1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11071122