• Title of article

    Ion irradiation induced nano granular magnetic Fe5Si3 silicide phase formation in Fe/Si structures

  • Author/Authors

    J.K. Tripathi، نويسنده , , P.C. Srivastava، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    2767
  • To page
    2772
  • Abstract
    In this work we report on swift heavy ion irradiation induced nano granular magnetic metallic Fe5Si3 silicide phase formation due to strong interfacial intermixing in Fe/Si bilayer samples. The bilayer samples have been irradiated with swift (100 MeV) heavy (56Fe7+) ions having a fluence of 1 × 1014 ions cm−2. It has been found that swift heavy ion causes strong irradiation induced interfacial intermixing and forms nano granular magnetic metallic Fe5Si3 silicide in Fe/Si bilayer samples, which shows strong uniform magnetic interaction and interacting magnetic particle behaviour at room temperature (RT).
  • Keywords
    Magnetic interaction , Nano granular magnetic metallic Fe5Si3 silicide , Irradiation , Magnetic force microscopy
  • Journal title
    Applied Surface Science
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Applied Surface Science
  • Record number

    1010824