Crystallinity control of ferromagnetic contacts in stressed nanowire templates and the magnetic domain anisotropy

• Main Authors: Lin, Yung-Chen, Chen, Yu, Chen, Renjie, Ghosh, Kaushik, Xiong, Qihua, Huang, Yu
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97265; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10887
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We report the controlled growth of single-crystalline ferromagnetic contacts through solid state reaction at nanoscale. Single-crystal Mn5Si3 and Fe5Ge3 contacts were grown within stressed Si and Ge nanowire templates, where oxide-shells were used to exert compressive stress on the silicide or germa...