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Magnetic Properties of Low-Moment Ferrimagnetic Heusler Cr2CoGa Thin Films Grown via Molecular Beam Epitaxy

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Author(s)

Michelle Elizabeth Jamer, George E. Sterbinsky, Matthew C. DeCapua, Gabriel Player, Don Heiman

Abstract

Recently, theorists have predicted many materials with a low magnetic moment and large spin-polarization for spintronic applications such as high-density non-volatile random access memory. These compounds are predicted to form in the inverse Heusler structure, however, many of these compounds have been found to phase segregate. In this study, ordered Cr2CoGa thin films were synthesized without phase segregation using molecular beam epitaxy. The present films exhibit a low magnetic moment from antiferromagnetically coupled Cr and Co atoms as measured with SQUID magnetometry and soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism.
Citation
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
109
Issue
18

Keywords

Heuslers

Citation

, M. , , G. , , M. , Player, G. and Heiman, D. (2016), Magnetic Properties of Low-Moment Ferrimagnetic Heusler Cr<sub>2</sub>CoGa Thin Films Grown via Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Applied Physics Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=921436 (Accessed July 27, 2024)

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Created October 31, 2016, Updated February 19, 2017