Anisotropy in polyetheretherketone films

Surface morphology, structure and magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial Ni films

Understanding the correlation between film structure and its ferromagnetic properties is very important for applications. To this end, we have investigated epitaxial and smooth Ni films grown on MgO substrates using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and dc sputtering. To establish correlation between film morphology and structure with magnetic properties, we have used in situ and ex situ scanning tu...

Thermal conductivity anisotropy and grain structure in Ge2Sb2Te5 films

Although lateral thermal conduction in Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) films can influence the performance of phase change memory (PCM), there are no data available for the in-plane thermal conductivity. This work measures both the in-plane and the out-of-plane thermal conductivities for the amorphous, face-centered-cubic, and hexagonal-close-packed phases of GST using two independent techniques. For crystalli...

Reorientation of magnetic anisotropy in obliquely sputtered metallic thin films

Reorientation in the magnetic anisotropy as a function of film thickness has been observed in Co-Ni and Co thin films, obliquely sputtered on a polyethylene terephthalate substrate at a large incidence angle ~70°!. This effect is a consequence of the low magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the films ~fcc structure of Co! and changes in microstructure from nuclei to columns according to the thickne...

Reorientation of magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial cobalt ferrite thin films

A. Lisfi,1,* C. M. Williams,1 L. T. Nguyen,2 J. C. Lodder,2 A. Coleman,1 H. Corcoran,1 A. Johnson,1 P. Chang,1 A. Kumar,1 and W. Morgan1 1Department of Physics, Morgan State University, 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland 21251, USA 2SMI, MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands Received 27 March 2007; revised manuscript ...

Perpendicular anisotropy in granular Co-Zr-O films