Abstract
It is now clear that both the atomic and magnetic properties of epitaxial Fe films can be controlled by the precise nature of the substrate which acts as the template for the growth. We have investigated the role of defects and strain arising from lattice mismatch on the growth and the magnetic properties of the Fe films. The films were grown by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) on three different well characterized surfaces: GaAs(100), In0.2Ga0.8As(100), and Fe(100). The first two surfaces were also prepared by MBE. This mole fraction of In was chosen to match the lattice constant of bulk α-Fe. The growth of the Fe film was characterized by using reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and the results indicate that the morphology of the Fe films is smoother on the InGaAs surface than on the GaAs surface. Yet is is still much rougher than the growth on Fe(100) substrate. The magnetic properties were measured by using a SQUID magnetometer and coercivity values are comparable to that of the films grown on ZnSe.1
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