Surface/interface roughness effects on magneto-electrical properties of thin films

Anomalous scaling of iron thin film electrodeposited in a magnetic field

“…Palasantzas et al [3] reported that the roughness on thin film surfaces/interfaces causes the poor performance induced by the physical characteristics such as magnetic and electronic transport properties. There is unfortunately a considerable lack of understanding how to control the microscopic growth process of electrocrystallization in comparison with the film technology based on the vacuum processing.…”

Transition from smoothing to roughening of ion-eroded GaSb surfaces

“…1 Therefore controlling the roughness is an important issue in a broad variety of technological applications. In addition, by controlling the roughness down to the nanoscale the structure and properties of films deposited on these surfaces can be tuned.…”

Sub-micron magnetic patterns and local variations of adhesion force induced in non-ferromagnetic amorphous steel by femtosecond pulsed laser irradiation

“…Adhesion is a crucial parameter in magnetic systems for biological and mechatronic applications [2,3], in some bioinspired actuator devices [4] or in magnetic wall-climbing devices [5]. Surface roughness plays also a crucial role on the magneto-electrical properties of a variety of thin films [6,7]. In many of these cases it is desirable that the magnetic behavior of the patterned structures is not affected by the presence of magnetic stray fields stemming from neighboring magnetic materials or underlying magnetic layers.…”