Systematic investigation of structural and magnetic properties in molecular beam epitaxial growth of metastable zinc-blende CrTe toward half-metallicity

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Sreenivasan, M G ^a,b   Bi, J F ^a,b   Teo, K L ^a,b   Liew, T ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIZATION; METASTABLE PHASES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY;

HALF-METALLICITY; HARD-AXIS DIRECTION; METASTABLE ZINC-BLENDE (ZB) PHASE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 40149097439     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2885108     Document Type: Article

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