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most citedThe origin of anomalous diffusion in iron mononitride thin films

30 citations · 103 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Extending the Growth Temperature-N Concentration Regime Through Pd Doping in Fe4N Thin Films

Rohit Kumar Meena, Akhil Tayal, Andrei Gloskovskii +1

Fe4N is a well-known anti-perovskite compound exhibiting high magnetization, high chemical stability, low coercivity, high Curie temperature, and high spin-polarization ratio. Ther…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Synthesis and study of ScN thin films

Susmita Chowdhury, Rachana Gupta, Parasmani Rajput +8

To contemplate an alternative approach for the minimization of diffusion at high temperature depositions, present findings impart viability of room-temperature deposited reactively…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Sublattice spin reversal and field induced spin-canting across the magnetic compensation temperature in rare-earth iron garnet

Manik Kuila, Jose Renato Linares Mardegan, Akhil Tayal +2

In the present work sublattice spin reversal and spin-canting across the magnetic compensation temperature () are demonstrated in polycrystalline $Y_{…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 1 cited

Microscopic Origin of Structural Disorder in -NbN: Correlation of Superconductivity and Electronic Structure

Shailesh Kalal, Sanjay Nayak, Akhil Tayal +3

Rock-salt type niobium nitride (-NbN) is a well-known superconductor having superconducting transition temperature (Tc) 18\,K and a large superconducting gap …

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic Properties of HiPIMS Grown Co-N Thin Films

Seema, Akhil Tayal, S. M. Amir +3

We studied the growth behavior, structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of cobalt nitride (Co-N) thin films deposited using direct current (dc) and high power impulse magne…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Phase formation, thermal stability and magnetic moment of cobalt nitride thin films

Rachana Gupta, Nidhi Pandey, Akhil Tayal +1

Cobalt nitride (Co-N) thin films prepared using a reactive magnetron sputtering process by varying the relative nitrogen gas flow (\pn) are studied in this work. As \pn~increases,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Effect of Al doping on phase formation and thermal stability of iron nitride thin films

Akhil Tayal, Mukul Gupta, Nidhi Pandey +3

In the present work, we systematically studied the effect of Al doping on the phase formation of iron nitride (Fe-N) thin films. Fe-N thin films with different concentration of Al…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 30 cited

The origin of anomalous diffusion in iron mononitride thin films

Akhil Tayal, Mukul Gupta, Ajay Gupta +2

We have studied the origin of a counter intuitive diffusion behavior of Fe and N atoms in a iron mononitride (FeN) thin film. It was observed that in-spite of a larger atomic size,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Study of magnetic iron nitride thin films deposited by high power impulse magnetron sputtering

Akhil Tayal, Mukul Gupta, Ajay Gupta +4

In this work, we studied phase formation, structural and magnetic properties of iron-nitride (Fe-N) thin films deposited using high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 26 cited

Effect of dopants on thermal stability and self-diffusion in iron nitride thin films

Akhil Tayal, Mukul Gupta, Ajay Gupta +4

We studied the effect of dopants (Al, Ti, Zr) on the thermal stability of iron nitride thin films prepared using a dc magnetron sputtering technique. Structure and magnetic charact…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 19 cited

Formation of iron nitride thin films with Al and Ti additives

Rachana Gupta, Akhil Tayal, Mukul Gupta +3

In this work we investigate the process of iron nitride (Fe-N) phase formation using 2 at.% Al or 2 at.% Ti as additives. The samples were prepared with a magnetron sputtering tech…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 27 cited

Fe and N self-diffusion in non-magnetic Fe:N

M. Gupta, A. Gupta, R. Gupta +3

Fe and N self-diffusion in non-magnetic FeN has been studied using neutron reflectivity. The isotope labelled multilayers, FeN/57Fe:N and Fe:N/Fe:15N were prepared using magnetron…