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most citedDynamic evolution of internal stress, grain growth, and crystallographic texture in arc-evaporated AlTiN thin films using in-situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

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.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Chemically homogeneous boron carbide 10B/11B isotope modulated neutron interference mirrors

J. Birch, S. Stendah, S. Dorri +3

We introduce a novel type of neutron interference mirrors based on a chemically homogeneous BxC (x>4) matrix with internal high precision 10B/11B isotope modulation. Simulations pr…

physics.optics2024

Spectral Tuning of Polarization Selective Reflections Bands in GLAD deposited HfAlN chiral sculptured thin films

Samiran Bairagi, Marcus Lorentzon, Firat Angay +5

We present the first report on fabrication of Hafnium aluminum nitride chiral sculptured thin films (CSTFs) using reactive magnetron sputtering in a glancing angle deposition confi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Dynamic evolution of internal stress, grain growth, and crystallographic texture in arc-evaporated AlTiN thin films using in-situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction

Sanjay Nayak, Tun-Wei Hsu, Robert Boyd +5

Understanding the nucleation and growth of polycrystalline thin films is a long-standing goal. Polycrystalline films have many grains with different orientations that affect thin-f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Effects of deposition temperature on the mechanical and structural properties of amorphous Al-Si-O thin films prepared by RF magnetron sputtering

Stefan Karlsson, Per Eklund, Lars Österlund +2

Aluminosilicate (Al-Si-O) thin films containing up to 31 at. % Al and 23 at. % Si were prepared by reactive RF magnetron co-sputtering. Mechanical and structural properties were me…