Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 47, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/47/475701
Keywords
CoFe alloys; focused electron beam induced deposition; heteronuclear carbonyl precursor
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [PO 1415/2-1]
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Recently, focused electron beam-induced deposition has been employed to prepare functional magnetic nanostructures with potential in nanomagnetic logic and sensing applications by using homonuclear precursor gases like Fe(CO)(5) or Co-2(CO)(8). Here we show that an extension towards the fabrication of bi-metallic compounds is possible by using a single-source heteronuclear precursor gas. We have grown CoFe alloy magnetic nanostructures from the HFeCo3(CO)(12) metal carbonyl precursor. The compositional analysis indicates that the samples contain about 80. at% of metal and 10. at% of carbon and oxygen. Four-probe magnetotransport measurements are carried out on nanowires of various sizes down to a width of 50 nm, for which a room temperature resistivity of 43 mu Omega cm is found. Micro-Hall magnetometry reveals that 50 nm x 250 nm nanobars of the material are ferromagnetic up to the highest measured temperature of 250 K. Finally, the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) microstructural investigation shows that the deposits consist of a bcc Co-Fe phase mixed with a FeCo2 O-4 spinel oxide phase with nanograins of about 5 nm diameter.
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