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Publication
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Paper
Structural, electrical and magnetic properties of COxC1-x, granular films
Abstract
We report on the structural, electrical and magnetic properties of thin CoxC1-x granular films with metal volume fraction x = 0.27 close to the percolation threshold xp ≈ 03. The granular films arc prepared by simultaneous UHV electron beam evaporation of high purity Co and C at room temperature. The structural properties are determined from transmission electron microscopy revealing small Co clusters with mean diameters of about 3nm randomly dispersed in an electrically insulating C matrix. As-prepared films show insulating resistance behavior. Upon annealing to Ta = 600°C in-situ measurements within the electron microscope show coalescence of the Co clusters forming continuous cluster-networks. Resistance versus temperature and magnetoresistance measurements on annealed films show a gradual change from insulating to metallic behavior. Room temperature measurements of the magnetic properties show the evolution of ferromagnetic behavior from superparamagnetic behavior upon annealing with a formation of an unusual perpendicular anisotropy. © 1998 IEEE.