New Heteroleptic Cobalt Precursors for Deposition of Cobalt-Based Thin Films

Direct-liquid-evaporation chemical vapor deposition of smooth, highly conformal cobalt and cobalt nitride thin films

By a direct-liquid-evaporation chemical vapor deposition (DLE-CVD) method, we deposited smooth lowresistance cobalt (Co) and cobalt nitride (CoxN) thin films with excellent conformality at low temperatures down to 200 1C. In the DLE process, a cobalt amidinate precursor solution, bis(N,N0-diisopropylacetamidinato)cobalt(II) dissolved in tetradecane, was vaporized as it flowed smoothly, without ...

Magnetic cobalt nanowire thin films.

Two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) magnetic cobalt nanowire thin films with tunable 3-10 nm wire diameters have been electrodeposited using mesoporous silica templates containing 2D hexagonal or 3D cubic pore channels. As compared to bulk cobalt films, the cobalt nanowire thin films exhibit enhanced coercivities and controllable magnetic anisotropy through tuning of the mesostructu...

Solution-based synthesis of cobalt-doped ZnO thin films

Undoped and cobalt-doped (1-4 wt%) ZnO polycrystalline, thin films have been fabricated on quartz substrates using sequential spin-casting and annealing of simple salt solutions. X-ray diffraction (XRD) reveals a wurzite ZnO crystalline structure with high-resolution transmission electron microscopy showing lattice planes of separation 0.26 nm, characteristic of (002) planes. The Co appears to ...

Cobalt substituted ZnO thin films: a potential candidate for spintronics

Cobalt doped zinc oxide thin films have been deposited using spray pyrolysis method. These single phasic films exhibited [100] preferential texture and small decrease in the lattice parameter on cobalt substitution. The films having different Co concentration have almost similar surface morphology and microstructure. These Zn1-xCoxO (x B 0.10) thin films distinctly showed ferromagnetic characte...

Optical properties of cobalt slanted columnar thin films passivated by atomiclayer deposition