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Growth Mechanisms and Mechanical Response of 3D Superstructured Cubic and Hexagonal HfAlN Thin Films
M. Lorentzon, N. Takata, D. Depla +10
Transition metal aluminum nitrides are a technologically important class of multifunctional ceramics, however, the HfAlN system remains largely unexplored. We investigate phase sta…
Magnetic hysteresis control in thin film Fe/Si multilayers by incorporation of B4C
Anton Zubayer, Takayasu Hanashima, Jun Sugiyama +12
Magnetic hysteresis properties in Fe/Si multilayers have been studied as a function of the B4C content to control magnetization amplitude, coercivity, and hysteresis tilt, properti…
Optimization of magnetic contrast layer for neutron reflectometry
Anton Zubayer, Fredrik Eriksson, Naureen Ghafoor +3
Neutron reflectivity is a powerful technique for probing density profiles in films, with applications across Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. However, challenges arise when dealing…
Diminished spin-flip reflectivity in stacked multilayers with varying period thicknesses of Fe/Si by incorporating 11B4C
Anton Zubayer, Naureen Ghafoor, Anton Devishvili +8
This study investigates the effects of 11B4C co-sputtering on the structural and optical properties of Fe/Si stacked multilayers, with a focus on neutron supermirror applications.…
The Role of 11B4C Interlayers in Enhancing Fe/Si Multilayer Performance for Polarized Neutron Mirrors
Anton Zubayer, Fredrik Eriksson, Martin Falk +15
This study investigates the effects of incorporating 11B4C interlayers into Fe/Si multilayers, with a focus on interface quality, reflectivity, polarization, and magnetic propertie…
Persistent Uncorrelated Magnetic Domains in Fe/Si Multilayers and their suppression by incorporating 11B4C
Anton Zubayer, Artur Glavic, Naureen Ghafoor +16
This study investigates magnetic domains in Fe/Si and Fe/Si + B4C multilayers using spin flip off-specular polarized neutron reflectometry. The results show that Fe/Si multilayers…
Eliminating the spin-down critical angle in polarizing neutron optics for expanding the polarization bandwidth
A. Zubayer, N. Ghafoor, A. Glavic +6
Polarized neutron scattering is a very important analysis technique for studies of magnetism, spintronics, and high-sensitivity measurements, among others, offering invaluable info…
Neutron optical tuning of Fe/11B4CTi multilayers for optimal polarization and increased reflectivity for polarizing neutron optics
A. Zubayer, N. Ghafoor, K. A. Thorarinsdottir +7
The concept of scattering length density tuning for improved polarization is investigated for Fe/11B4CTi multilayers and compared to the commonly used Fe/Si system in polarizing mu…
Material design optimization for large-m 11B4C-based Ni/Ti supermirror neutron optics
Sjoerd Stendahl, Naureen Ghafoor, Anton Zubayer +4
State-of-the-art Ni/Ti supermirror neutron optics have limited reflected intensity and a restricted neutron energy range due to the interface width. Incorporating low-neutron-absor…
Reflective, polarizing, and magnetically soft amorphous Fe/Si multilayer neutron optics with isotope-enriched 11B4C inducing atomically flat interfaces
A. Zubayer, N. Ghafoor, K. A. Thórarinsdóttir +11
The utilization of polarized neutrons is of great importance in scientific disciplines spanning materials science, physics, biology, and chemistry. Polarization analysis offers ins…
Morphology of buried interfaces in ion-assisted magnetron sputter deposited 11B4C-containing Ni/Ti multilayer neutron optics investigated by grazing incidence small angle scattering
Sjoerd Broekhuijsen, Naureen Ghafoor, Matthias Schwartzkopf +3
Multilayer neutron optics require precise control of interface morphology for optimal performance. In this work, we investigate the effects of different growth conditions on the in…