Combinatorial Growth of Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Thin Films for Accelerated Exploration in Composition Variation
Combinatorial growth is capable of creating a compositional gradient for thin film materials and thus has been adopted to explore composition variation mostly for metallic alloy thin films and some dopant concentrations for ceramic thin films. This study uses a combinatorial pulsed laser deposition...
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| author | Bethany X. Rutherford Di Zhang Lizabeth Quigley James P. Barnard Bo Yang Juanjuan Lu Sundar Kunwar Hongyi Dou Jianan Shen Aiping Chen Haiyan Wang |
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| description | Combinatorial growth is capable of creating a compositional gradient for thin film materials and thus has been adopted to explore composition variation mostly for metallic alloy thin films and some dopant concentrations for ceramic thin films. This study uses a combinatorial pulsed laser deposition method to successfully fabricate two‐phase oxide–oxide vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) thin films of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO)‐NiO with variable composition across the film area. The LSMO‐NiO compositional gradient across the film alters the two‐phase morphology of the VAN through varying nanopillar size and density. Additionally, the magnetic anisotropy and magnetoresistance properties of the nanocomposite thin films increase with increasing NiO composition. This demonstration of a combinatorial method for VAN growth can increase the efficiency of nanocomposite thin film research by allowing all possible compositions of thin film materials to be explored in a single deposition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d5b2d5bae8a464bb4ab3d128151798e2023-11-17T08:06:28ZengWiley-VCHSmall Science2688-40462023-11-01311n/an/a10.1002/smsc.202300049Combinatorial Growth of Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Thin Films for Accelerated Exploration in Composition VariationBethany X. Rutherford0Di Zhang1Lizabeth Quigley2James P. Barnard3Bo Yang4Juanjuan Lu5Sundar Kunwar6Hongyi Dou7Jianan Shen8Aiping Chen9Haiyan Wang10School of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana 47907 USACenter for Integrated Technology (CINT) Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos New Mexico 87545 USASchool of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana 47907 USASchool of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana 47907 USASchool of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana 47907 USASchool of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana 47907 USACenter for Integrated Technology (CINT) Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos New Mexico 87545 USASchool of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana 47907 USASchool of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana 47907 USACenter for Integrated Technology (CINT) Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos New Mexico 87545 USASchool of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana 47907 USACombinatorial growth is capable of creating a compositional gradient for thin film materials and thus has been adopted to explore composition variation mostly for metallic alloy thin films and some dopant concentrations for ceramic thin films. This study uses a combinatorial pulsed laser deposition method to successfully fabricate two‐phase oxide–oxide vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) thin films of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO)‐NiO with variable composition across the film area. The LSMO‐NiO compositional gradient across the film alters the two‐phase morphology of the VAN through varying nanopillar size and density. Additionally, the magnetic anisotropy and magnetoresistance properties of the nanocomposite thin films increase with increasing NiO composition. This demonstration of a combinatorial method for VAN growth can increase the efficiency of nanocomposite thin film research by allowing all possible compositions of thin film materials to be explored in a single deposition.https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202300049combinatorial growthcompositionnanocompositethin filmvertically aligned nanocomposite |
| spellingShingle | Bethany X. Rutherford Di Zhang Lizabeth Quigley James P. Barnard Bo Yang Juanjuan Lu Sundar Kunwar Hongyi Dou Jianan Shen Aiping Chen Haiyan Wang Combinatorial Growth of Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Thin Films for Accelerated Exploration in Composition Variation Small Science combinatorial growth composition nanocomposite thin film vertically aligned nanocomposite |
| title | Combinatorial Growth of Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Thin Films for Accelerated Exploration in Composition Variation |
| title_full | Combinatorial Growth of Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Thin Films for Accelerated Exploration in Composition Variation |
| title_fullStr | Combinatorial Growth of Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Thin Films for Accelerated Exploration in Composition Variation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Combinatorial Growth of Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Thin Films for Accelerated Exploration in Composition Variation |
| title_short | Combinatorial Growth of Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Thin Films for Accelerated Exploration in Composition Variation |
| title_sort | combinatorial growth of vertically aligned nanocomposite thin films for accelerated exploration in composition variation |
| topic | combinatorial growth composition nanocomposite thin film vertically aligned nanocomposite |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202300049 |
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