Kinetics of first order magnetostructural transition in single crystalline FeRh thin film

Author

Lu, W. ; Xu, Y. ; Fang, X. ; Song, Y. ; Li, X.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2015

fDate

11-15 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This study reports the temperature- and time-dependent magnetization of the ferromagnetic phase in epitaxial FeRh thin films across the antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic transition on both heating and cooling process by vibrating sample magnetometry. The thin films are deposited on MgO (001) substrates by co-evaporation method and vacuum annealed at 700 K for 2 h. X-ray diffraction is employed for structural characterization. Results from the magnetization curves indicate that the nucleation and growth behaviors of the single crystalline thin film are similar to crystallization of solids.

Keywords

X-ray diffraction; annealing; antiferromagnetic materials; ferromagnetic materials; ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic transitions; iron alloys; magnetic epitaxial layers; magnetisation; magnetometry; metallic thin films; nucleation; rhodium alloys; solid-state phase transformations; vacuum deposition; FeRh; MgO; X-ray diffraction; antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic transition; coevaporation method; cooling process; crystallization; epitaxial thin films; first-order magnetostructural transition; heating process; magnetization curves; nucleation; single crystalline thin film; structural characterization; temperature 700 K; temperature-dependent magnetization; time 2 h; time-dependent magnetization; vacuum annealing; vibrating sample magnetometry; Amorphous magnetic materials; Frequency modulation; Magnetic fields; Magnetic films; Magnetic hysteresis; Magnetization; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7321-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTMAG.2015.7156775

Filename

7156775