Citation:
Muñoz-Noval, A., Salas-Colera, E., Bartolomé, P., Serrano, A., Castro, G. R., & Ranchal, R. (2017). Correlation between local structure and magnetic behavior in co-sputtered TbxFe73Ga27−x (7 ≤ x ≤ 11) thin films. In Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 726, 352–357
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Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
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This work has been financially supported through projects
MAT2015-66888-C3-3-R and PIE-2010-OE-013-200014 of the
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO/
FEDER) and through the project PR26/16-3B-2 of Santander and
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. We thank “Instituto de Sistemas Optoelectronicos y Microtecnología ” (ISOM) for using its
facilities. We also want to thank ESRF and BM25-Spline, the Spanish
CRG at ESRF, for providing beamtime.
We report on the evolution of the microstructure of Tb-Fe-Ga films deposited by co-sputtering from Tb33Fe67 and Fe72Ga28 targets. The sputtering power was fixed (90 W) in the Fe72Ga28 whereas it was increased from 50 to 90 W in the Tb33Fe67 target resulting onWe report on the evolution of the microstructure of Tb-Fe-Ga films deposited by co-sputtering from Tb33Fe67 and Fe72Ga28 targets. The sputtering power was fixed (90 W) in the Fe72Ga28 whereas it was increased from 50 to 90 W in the Tb33Fe67 target resulting on TbxFe73Ga27−x layers with 7 ≤ x ≤ 11. The local structure was determined by means of x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy at Fe-K, Ga-K and Tb-L3 edges. The increase of Tb in the alloy promotes the phase segregation that produces a larger amount of the TbFe2 structural phase. The structural results have been correlated with the magnetic characterization that shows the enhancement of the out-of-plane component of the magnetization.[+][-]