Structural, magnetic and transport properties of thin films of the Heusler alloy Co2MnSi

Details Structural, magnetic and transport properties of thin films of the Heusler alloy Co2MnSi Structural, magnetic and transport properties of thin films of the Heusler alloy Co2MnSi

2003-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311316v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

15 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1690868

Thin films of Co2MnSi have been grown on a-plane sapphire substrates from three elemental targets by dc magnetron co-sputtering. These films are single phase, have a strong (110) texture and a saturation magnetization of 4.95 uB/formula unit at 10 K. Films grown at the highest substrate temperature of 715 K showed the lowest resistivity (47 uOhm cm at 4.2 K) and the lowest coercivity (18 Oe). The spin polarization of the transport current was found to be of the order of 54% as determined by point contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy. A decrease in saturation magnetization with decreasing film thickness and different transport behaviour in thinner films indicate a graded disorder in these films grown on non-lattice matched substrates.

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