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Intermixing of Aluminum-Magnetic Transition Metals Bilayers
Published
Author(s)
J D. Buchanan, T P. Hase, B K. Tanner, P J. Chen, L Gan, Cedric J. Powell, William F. Egelhoff Jr.
Abstract
Grazing incidence x-ray scattering has been used to study interfacial intermixing in thin films of aluminum/transition metal bilayers grown by dc magnetron sputter deposition at room temperature. As with all transition metals, the ferromagnets Fe, Co and Ni have dramatically different interface widths between X/Al and Al/X (X = Fe,Co,Ni). Intermixing lengths are larger for X on Al than Al on X.
Buchanan, J.
, Hase, T.
, Tanner, B.
, Chen, P.
, Gan, L.
, Powell, C.
and Egelhoff Jr., W.
(2003),
Intermixing of Aluminum-Magnetic Transition Metals Bilayers, Journal of Applied Physics
(Accessed October 13, 2025)