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Crystallization of Ba-ferrite/sapphire(001) Thin Films Studied by Real-Time Synchrotron X-ray Scattering
Journal of Magnetics, Volume 7, Number 2, 30 Jun 2002, Pages 51-54
Tae-Sik Cho* (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sangju National University)
Abstract
The crystallization of amorphous Ba-ferrite/sapphire(001) thin films was studied in real-time synchrotron x-ray scattering experiments. In the sputter-grown amorphous films, we found the existence of epitaxial interfacial crystallites (50-Å-thick), well aligned [0.03° full-width at half-maximum (FWHM)] to the sapphire [001] direction. The amorphous precursor was crystallized to epitaxial Ba-ferrite and α-Fe2O3 grains in two steps; i) the nucleation of crystalline α-Fe2O3 phase started at 300℃ together with the transformation of the Fe3O4 crystallites to the α-Fe2O3 crystallites, ii) the nucleation of Ba-ferrite phase occurred at temperature above 600℃. In the crystallized films irrespective of the film thickness, the crystal domain size of the α-Fe2O3 grains was about 250 Å in the film plane, similar to that of the Ba-ferrite grains.
Keywords: Ba-ferrite/sapphire(001) thin films; synchrotron x-ray scattering; crystallization; sputtering
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