Auger electron diffraction from NiO(100) layers on Ag(100)

Epitaxial growth and characterization of CoO/Fe(001) thin film layered structures

“…CoO is grown by evaporating metallic Co in a controlled oxygen atmosphere ("reactive deposition"). Such a technique has already demonstrated to be suitable for epitaxially growing thin films of NiO on Ag, Au and Fe [9][10][11] and of CoO onto weakly reactive metals such as Ag and Au [12][13][14], even if the lattice mismatches between CoO and Ag or Au are slightly larger than those for NiO (about 4.2% versus about 2.3%, respectively). Moreover, growing cobalt oxide thin films is, in general, a more challenging task with respect to the NiO case, since the higher valence cobalt oxide Co 3 O 4 can also be easily stabilized [15].…”

Magnetic linear dichroism studies of in situ grown NiO thin films

“…The appealing electronic properties of NiO such as large bandgap ð$4 eVÞ, high-magnetic ordering temperature ðT N ¼ 520 KÞ and high-thermal stability make it a favorable material also for device applications. There have been several studies on the growth and structural characterization of the thin oxide films [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], but many aspects of the magnetic properties are still unclear. It is essential to understand the antiferromagnetic (AF) spin structure and domain behaviors of these films if we have to manipulate them in a controlled way to be useful for applications.…”

The growth of thin NiO films on Ag(001) studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy

“…As a first step, thin uniform NiO films should be prepared and their atomic and electronic structures analyzed. A number of efforts using methods like Auger electron diffraction, [3,4] scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) [5 -7] and spot profile analysis of low energy electron diffraction (SPA-LEED) [8] have already been published in this respect. It was shown that stoichiometric ordered thin NiO films may be obtained by reactive deposition of Ni in O 2 atmosphere onto a Ag(001) substrate.…”