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@ARTICLE{Pandey:868010,
author = {Pandey, Nidhi and Pütter, S. and Syed Mohd, Amir and
Reddy, V. R. and Phase, D. M. and Stahn, J. and Gupta, Ajay
and Gupta, M.},
title = {{E}ffect of interfacial interdiffusion on magnetism in
epitaxial {F}e$_4${N} films on {L}a{A}l{O}$_3$ substrates},
journal = {Physical review materials},
volume = {3},
number = {11},
issn = {2475-9953},
address = {College Park, MD},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-06603},
pages = {114414},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Epitaxial Fe$_4$N thin films grown on LaAlO$_3$ (LAO)
substrate using sputtering and molecular beam epitaxy
techniques have been studied in this work. Within the
sputtering process, films were grown with conventional
direct current magnetron sputtering (dcMS) and using a high
power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) process. Surface
morphology and depth profile studies on these samples reveal
that HiPIMS deposited film has the lowest roughness, the
highest packing density, and the sharpest interface. We
found that the substrate-film interface and the
microstructure play a vital role in affecting the electronic
hybridization and magnetic properties of Fe$_4$N films. La
from the LAO substrate and Fe from the film interdiffuse and
form an undesired interface. The magnetic moment (M$_s$) was
compared using bulk, element-specific and magnetic depth
profiling techniques. We found that M$_s$ was the highest
when the thickness of the interdiffused layer was lowest and
such conditions can only be achieved in the HiPIMS grown
samples. The presence of a small moment at the N site was
also evidenced by element-specific x-ray circular dichroism
measurement in the HiPIMS grown sample. A large variation in
the M$_s$ values of Fe$_4$N films found in the experimental
works carried out so far could be due to such an
interdiffused layer which is generally not expected to form
in otherwise stable oxide substrate at a low substrate
temperature ≈675 K. In addition, a consequence of
substrate-film interdiffusion and microstructure resulted in
the different kinds of magnetic anisotropies in Fe$_4$N
films grown using different techniques. A detailed
investigation of the substrate-film interface and
microstructure on the magnetization of Fe$_4$N film is
presented and discussed in this work.},
cin = {JCNS-FRM-II / JCNS-2 / MLZ},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106 / I:(DE-588b)4597118-3},
pnm = {6212 - Quantum Condensed Matter: Magnetism,
Superconductivity (POF3-621) / 6G4 - Jülich Centre for
Neutron Research (JCNS) (POF3-623) / 6G15 - FRM II / MLZ
(POF3-6G15)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6212 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G15},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)MBE-MLZ-20151210 / EXP:(DE-MLZ)MARIA-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000498902800003},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.114414},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/868010},
}