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Epitaxy of Iron on Various Ruthenium Surfaces: Occurence of a New Fe Phase.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Michel Piecuch ,
Marie Françoise Ravet  and
Marc Maurer
Michel Piecuch
Affiliation:
Laboratoire mixte CNRS-St Gobain, UM37, CRPAM, BP 109, 54704 Pont à Mousson Cédex FRANCE.
Marie Françoise Ravet
Affiliation:
Laboratoire mixte CNRS-St Gobain, UM37, CRPAM, BP 109, 54704 Pont à Mousson Cédex FRANCE.
Marc Maurer
Affiliation:
Laboratoire mixte CNRS-St Gobain, UM37, CRPAM, BP 109, 54704 Pont à Mousson Cédex FRANCE.
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Abstract

We have deposited Fe on (0001) and (1122) Ru surfaces. The RHEED patterns of Fe layers on these two different surfaces show perfect 2 dimensionnal epitaxy. The symmetry of the RHEED patterns is clearly 6 fold in the case of the (0001) growth direction. The RHEED patterns in the case of Fe deposited on (1122) surface are the same as those obtained from the clean Ru surface. The structure of the Fe surface is then exactly pseudomorphous to the Ru surface in both cases. Superlattices of these new Fe atomic layers with Ru have been achieved. We have deduced from X-ray diffraction, the average interplanar spacing d and we have demonstrated the hexagonal close packed stacking sequence of the entire superlattice. Plots of d versus the average atomic composition are used to determine the value of Fe interplanar spacing as 2.075Å and 1.08Å for the (0001) and the (1122) plane respectively. We are then able to determine the average Fe atomic volume, 12.8Å3. We propose that Fe is in an expanded new metastable hexagonal phase.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 187: Symposium J – Thin Film Structures and Phase Stability , 1990 , 231
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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