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Structure determination of thin CoFe films by anomalous x-ray diffraction

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In this paper, the authors investigated the structure-property relationships in thin CoFe films grown on MgO and showed that the A2 structure with a random distribution of Co and Fe exhibits the same properties as the ordered B2 structure.
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This work reports on the investigation of structure-property relationships in thin CoFe films grown on MgO. Because of the very similar scattering factors of Fe and Co, it is not possible to distinguish the random A2 (W-type) structure from the ordered B2 (CsCl-type) structure with commonly used x-ray sources. Synchrotron radiation based anomalous x-ray diffraction overcomes this problem. It is shown that as grown thin films and 300 K post annealed films exhibit the A2 structure with a random distribution of Co and Fe. In contrast, films annealed at 400 K adopt the ordered B2 structure.

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