Unstrained Epitaxial Zn-Substituted Fe3O4 Films for Ferromagnetic Field-Effect Transistors

作者:Ichimura Takashi*; Fujiwara Kohei; Kushizaki Takayoshi; Kanki Teruo; Tanaka Hidekazu
来源:Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2013, 52(6): 068002.
DOI:10.7567/JJAP.52.068002

摘要

A field-effect transistor has been fabricated utilizing an epitaxial film of unstrained zinc-substituted magnetite (Fe3O4) as the active channel. A thin film of Fe2.5Zn0.5O4 was grown on a lattice-matched MgO(001) substrate by pulsed-laser deposition and covered by a parylene gate insulator to dope charge carriers by a field effect. The device showed a field-effect mobility of 1.2 x 10(-2) cm(2) V-1 s(-1) at 300 K, which is higher by a factor of 15 than those of the devices with strained Fe2.5Zn0.5O4 channels on perovskite-type substrates. The enhanced response to the gate electric field is useful in exploring gate-tunable magnetism in magnetite.

  • 出版日期2013-6