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Mn doped GaAs thin films were grown using molecular beam epitaxy at high and low substrate temperatures. The elemental concentration depth profiles in the thin films were determined by using Auger electron spectroscopy combined with ion…

(111) NiO epitaxial layers embedded with crystallographically oriented Ni-clusters are grown on c-GaN/Sapphire templates using pulsed laser deposition technique. Structural and magnetic properties of the films are examined by a variety of…

The present study elucidates the correlation between the structural and optical properties of GaN nanowires grown on Si(111) substrate by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE) technique under various growth conditions. GaN NWs…

In order to analyse the effect of strain on the magnetic properties of narrow-band manganites, the temperature and field dependent susceptibilities of about 8.5 nm thick epitaxial Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3 films, respectively grown on (001) and (110)…

A detailed study of the influence of molecular beam epitaxial growth conditions on the structural and magnetic characteristics of CuMnSb films on lattice matched GaSb is presented. For a set of nine 40~nm thick layers, the Mn and Sb fluxes…

Manganese silicide (MnxSiy) thin films with Mn content (CMn) varied from 24 at. % to 52 at. % were grown on i-GaAs (100) substrates. Chemical, phase composition and room temperature magnetic properties of the films were investigated. It was…

A detailed nanoscale structural characterization was performed on high-quality La0.66Sr0.33MnO3 (LSMO) thin films of different thicknesses and deposited by pulsed laser deposition onto buffered Si (100) substrates. A multilayered structure…

We present a detailed real-space spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) study of the magnetic domain structure of Gd(0001) films epitaxially grown on W(110). To find optimal preparation conditions, the influence of the…

We report on the structural properties of epitaxial FeO layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy on MgO(111). The successful stabilization of polar FeO films as thick as 16 monolayers (ML), obtained by deposition and subsequent oxidation of…

In order to get homogeneous nanostructured Aluminum Nitride deposits, thin films were grown at room temperature on [001] Si substrates by radio frequency magnetron reactive sputtering. The deposits were analysed by Transmission Electron…

Engineering heterostructures with various types of quantum materials can provide an intriguing playground for studying exotic physics induced by the proximity effect. Here, we report the successful synthesis of iron-based superconductor…

Altermagnets are a recently-discovered class of materials with magnetic ordering that have a zero net magnetization and a momentum-dependent spin splitting in their band structure, arising from a collinear spin arrangement with alternating…

Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide films with distorted trigonal (1T$^\prime$) phase have been predicted to be candidates for realizing quantum spin Hall effect. Growth of 1T$^\prime$ film and experimental investigation of its…

In this work, we analysed GdMnO3 magnetoelectric thin films prepared by a general sol-gel method. The film formation temperature is analysed by termogravimetric analysis, while the lattice parameters of the Pbnm orthorhombic films are…

We have studied the properties of relatively thick (about 120 nm) magnetic composite films grown by pulsed laser deposition method using (GaSb)$_{0.59}$(MnSb)$_{0.41}$ eutectic compound as a target for sputtering. For the studied films we…

Clear evidence of ferromagnetic behavior at temperatures >400 K as well as spin polarization of the charge carriers have been observed in ZnMnO thin films grown on Al2O3 and MgO substrates. The magnetic properties depended on the exact Mn…

MnBi2Te4 has recently been predicted and shown to be a magnetic topological insulator with intrinsic antiferromagnetic order. However, it remains a challenge to grow stoichiometric MnBi2Te4 films by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and to…

Tuning magnetic properties of magnetic topological materials is of interest to realize elusive physical phenomena such as quantum anomalous hall effect (QAHE) at higher temperatures and design topological spintronic devices. However,…

We report the growth of the intrinsic magnetic topological system MnTe(Bi2Te3)n by molecular beam epitaxy. By mapping the temperature and the Bi:Mn flux ratio, it is shown that there is a narrow growth window for the n=1 phase MnBi2Te4 with…

The structural, magnetic, and magnetocaloric properties of epitaxial Ni-Co-Mn-Al thin films with different compositions have been studied. The films were deposited on MgO(001) substrates by co-sputtering on heated substrates. All films show…