The effect of critical fluctuations in magnetisation near the Curie point and far from the phase transition on the sputtering yield of the magnetic materials Ni and Gd is examined. The inclusion of the spin configuration of the nearest atoms around an atom sputtered from a surface has been found to result in an increase of the target sputtering yield by about 1.5 times compared with the ferromagnetic state.
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