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This work has been financially supported through the project RTI2018-097895-B-C43 of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FEDER) and project MAT2017-87072-C4-3-P of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.

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Electrodeposition of Hybrid Magnetostrictive/Magnetoelectric Layered Systems

Publicated to:Materials. 14 (21): 6304- - 2021-11-01 14(21), DOI: 10.3390/ma14216304

Authors: Abad, Sara; Prados, Alicia; Maicas, Marco; Biskup, Neven; Varela, Maria; Ranchal, Rocio

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Univ Complutense Madrid Adif Consejo Super Invest, Inst Magnetismo Aplicado, POB 155, Las Rozas 28230, Spain - Author
Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Ciencias Fis, Dept Fis Mat, Plaza Ciencias 1, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author
Univ Complutense Madrid, Inst Pluridisciplinar, Paseo Juan XXIII 1, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Inst Optoelect Syst & Microtechnol, Ave Complutense 30, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author

Abstract

The potential use of electrodeposition to synthesize a hybrid magnetostrictive/magnetoelectric layered system is shown in this paper. By appropriately adjusting pH, growth potential, and electrolyte composition, it is possible to achieve thin films in which magnetoelectric oxide GaFeO3 (GFO) is formed in close contact with magnetostrictive metallic FeGa alloy. X-ray diffractometry shows the formation of FeGa as well as GFO and Fe oxides. Electron microscopy observations reveal that GFO mainly segregates in grain boundaries. Samples are ferromagnetic with an isotropic magnetic behavior in the sample plane. Magnetic stripes are observed by magnetic force microscopy and are correlated to Fe3O4. When its segregation is minimal, the absence of stripes can be used to monitor Fe oxide segregation.

Keywords
Binary alloysDielectric-propertiesElectrodepositionElectrodesElectrolyte compositionsElectrolytesFe oxideFe-ga alloyGrain boundariesGrowth potentialHybrid layeredIron alloysIron oxidesLayered systemsMagnetoelectricsMagnetostrictive devicesMetallicsOxide filmsPhase segregationPhase segregationsThin-filmsX ray diffraction analysisX-ray-absorption

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The work has been published in the journal Materials due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 18/79, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering.

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