Interfacial mixing behavior of Fe-Al magnetic thin films: molecular dynamics Simulation

Author

Chung, Chan-Yeup ; Chung, Yong-Chae

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ceramic Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

41

Issue

10

fYear

2005

Firstpage

3706

Lastpage

3708

Abstract

The interfacial mixing phenomenon for Fe-Al magnetic thin-film system was quantitatively investigated using molecular dynamics simulation. The Fe-Al system has shown different characteristics such as layer coverage function and mixing length, compared with other ferromagnetic/nonferromagnetic metallic bilayer systems. The different intermixing behavior could be successfully explained in terms of cohesive energy and local acceleration effect. In addition, it can be clearly seen that intermixing was rather insensitive to changes in the adatom kinetic energy but dependent on the substrate temperature.

Keywords

aluminium alloys; ferromagnetic materials; iron alloys; magnetic thin films; molecular dynamics method; Fe-Al bilayer system; FeAl; adatom kinetic energy; interfacial intermixing; interfacial mixing behavior; magnetic thin films; molecular dynamics simulation; Atomic layer deposition; Atomic measurements; Computational modeling; Iron; Kinetic energy; Length measurement; Magnetic films; Substrates; Surface morphology; Transistors; Fe–Al bilayer system; interfacial intermixing; molecular dynamics simulation; thin films;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2005.854923

Filename

1519418