Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
The coercivity of granular Fe embedded inside an SiO2 matrix was as high as 3 kOe at 6K, and 1.1 kOe at 300K. In this study, we observed a linear temperature (T) dependence of the coercivity for the samples prepared at a high substrate temperature (773K), and a T1/2 dependence of the coercivity for the sample prepared at a low substrate temperature (473K). This indicates that the microstructures of films prepared at different substrate temperatures are not the same. This phenomenon can be explained if we assume that there are interconnections between particles for the sample prepared at a high substrate temperature. We looked for evidence of interconnections between particles with transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
This work is partly supported by ONR Contract No:N00014-85-K-0175.