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Epitaxial Growth of Rare Earths on Rare Earth Fluorides and Rare Earth Fluorides on Rare Earths: Two New Epitaxial Systems Accessed by MBE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

R. F. C. Farrow ,
S. S. P. Parkin ,
M. Lang  and
K. P. Roche
R. F. C. Farrow
Affiliation:
IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, Ca 95120-6099.
S. S. P. Parkin
Affiliation:
IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, Ca 95120-6099.
M. Lang
Affiliation:
IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, Ca 95120-6099.
K. P. Roche
Affiliation:
IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, Ca 95120-6099.
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Abstract

We report two new epitaxial systems, prepared by MBE: basal plane epitaxy of the rare earth metal Dy onto LaF3 films and vice versa. SQUID magnetometry studies indicate that buried epitaxial Dy films, of ∼300Å thick, order ferromagnetically at similar temperatures to bulk Dy crystals.These epitaxial systems are one member of a new family of epitaxial systems of basal plane epitaxy of rare earth metals on rare earth fluorides and vice versa. Such systems may be used to probe the effects of strain and dimensionality on magnetic ordering in rare earth metal films and multilayers.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 103 , 1987 , 205
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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