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Title: Controlled Phase and Tunable Magnetism in Ordered Iron Oxide Nanotube Arrays Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition

Abstract

Highly-ordered and conformal iron oxide nanotube arrays on an atomic scale are successfully prepared by atomic layer deposition (ALD) with controlled oxidization states and tunable magnetic properties between superparamagnetism and ferrimagnetism. Non-magnetic α-Fe2O3 and superparamagnetic Fe2O3with a blocking temperature of 120 K are in-situ obtained by finely controlling the oxidation reaction. Both of them exhibit a very small grain size of only several nanometers due to the nature of atom-by-atom growth of the ALD technique. Post-annealing α-Fe2O3 in a reducing atmosphere leads to the formation of the spinel Fe3O4 phase which displays a distinct ferrimagnetic anisotropy and the Verwey metal-insulator transition that usually takes place only in single crystal magnetite or thick epitaxial films at low temperatures. Finally, the ALD deposition of iron oxide with well-controlled phase and tunable magnetism demonstrated in this work provides a promising opportunity for the fabrication of 3D nano-devices to be used in catalysis, spintronics, microelectronics, data storages and bio-applications.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3]
  1. Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., Xi'an (China)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  3. Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., Xi'an (China); Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC (Canada)
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1258607
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Zhang, Yijun, Liu, Ming, Peng, Bin, Zhou, Ziyao, Chen, Xing, Yang, Shu-Ming, Jiang, Zhuang-De, Zhang, Jie, Ren, Wei, and Ye, Zuo-Guang. Controlled Phase and Tunable Magnetism in Ordered Iron Oxide Nanotube Arrays Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/srep18401.
Zhang, Yijun, Liu, Ming, Peng, Bin, Zhou, Ziyao, Chen, Xing, Yang, Shu-Ming, Jiang, Zhuang-De, Zhang, Jie, Ren, Wei, & Ye, Zuo-Guang. Controlled Phase and Tunable Magnetism in Ordered Iron Oxide Nanotube Arrays Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18401
Zhang, Yijun, Liu, Ming, Peng, Bin, Zhou, Ziyao, Chen, Xing, Yang, Shu-Ming, Jiang, Zhuang-De, Zhang, Jie, Ren, Wei, and Ye, Zuo-Guang. Wed . "Controlled Phase and Tunable Magnetism in Ordered Iron Oxide Nanotube Arrays Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18401. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1258607.
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title = {Controlled Phase and Tunable Magnetism in Ordered Iron Oxide Nanotube Arrays Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition},
author = {Zhang, Yijun and Liu, Ming and Peng, Bin and Zhou, Ziyao and Chen, Xing and Yang, Shu-Ming and Jiang, Zhuang-De and Zhang, Jie and Ren, Wei and Ye, Zuo-Guang},
abstractNote = {Highly-ordered and conformal iron oxide nanotube arrays on an atomic scale are successfully prepared by atomic layer deposition (ALD) with controlled oxidization states and tunable magnetic properties between superparamagnetism and ferrimagnetism. Non-magnetic α-Fe2O3 and superparamagnetic Fe2O3with a blocking temperature of 120 K are in-situ obtained by finely controlling the oxidation reaction. Both of them exhibit a very small grain size of only several nanometers due to the nature of atom-by-atom growth of the ALD technique. Post-annealing α-Fe2O3 in a reducing atmosphere leads to the formation of the spinel Fe3O4 phase which displays a distinct ferrimagnetic anisotropy and the Verwey metal-insulator transition that usually takes place only in single crystal magnetite or thick epitaxial films at low temperatures. Finally, the ALD deposition of iron oxide with well-controlled phase and tunable magnetism demonstrated in this work provides a promising opportunity for the fabrication of 3D nano-devices to be used in catalysis, spintronics, microelectronics, data storages and bio-applications.},
doi = {10.1038/srep18401},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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