Properties of epitaxial chromium dioxide films grown by chemical vapor deposition using a liquid precursor

A. Anguelouch; A. Gupta; Gang Xiao; G. X. Miao; D. W. Abraham; S. Ingvarsson; Y. Ji; C. L. Chien

doi:10.1063/1.1455604

Properties of epitaxial chromium dioxide films grown by chemical vapor deposition using a liquid precursor

A. Anguelouch^*, A. Gupta, Gang Xiao, G. X. Miao, D. W. Abraham, S. Ingvarsson, Y. Ji, C. L. Chien

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Epitaxial chromium dioxide (CrO ₂) films have been grown using chemical vapor deposition on (100) TiO ₂ substrate with chromyl chloride (CrO ₂Cl ₂) as a liquid precursor. The films are extremely smooth (rms roughness less than 4.6 Å for a 1000-Å-thick film) and have the largest spin polarization (P=98.4%) yet observed, as determined by point contact Andreev reflection. Magnetization switching properties of the films are close to those of a single-domain particle. Preliminary results on the in situ growth of exchange-biased CrO ₂/Cr ₂O ₃ multilayers are also reported. Although a bias field is observed, it is much smaller in comparison with the coercivity of the CrO ₂ film.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7140-7142
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	91
Issue number	10 I
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1455604
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2002

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