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APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
Volume 110, Issue 4, Pages 915-922Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-012-7196-8
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- European Social Fund in Romania [POSDRU/88/1.5/S/47646, POSDRU/89/1.5/S/49944]
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CoFe2O4 thin films with preferential texture structure, small grain size, and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy can be obtained by the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. In this work, we studied the influence of the Fe3+ ions substitution by three elements from lanthanide group (Dy, La, and Gd) on the structural properties of the thin films. The samples were deposited by Nd:YAG laser (lambda=532 nm, 10 ns) ablation of CoFe1.8RE0.2O4, (RE=Dy, La, Gd) targets at various substrate temperatures ranging from room temperature to 600 A degrees C. The microstructure and chemical composition of the thin films were investigated by Raman spectroscopy, XRD, SEM-EDS, and ToF-SIMS. The XRD patterns and Raman spectra of the thin films indicated the formation of a single spinel structure. Thus, the desired substitution of the iron ions in the spinel lattice with the RE elements was achieved in the thin films, although in the bulk material, their presence determined the formation of a residual phase with a perovskite-type structure.
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