PNNL

Abstract

There is growing interest in the synthesis of model oxides as thin films on various oxide and metal substrate to obtain high-quality surfaces. The growth of iron oxides thin films with good crystalline quality is of increasing interest due to their applications in heterogeneous catalysis, magnetic thin films, surface geochemistry, corrosion, and integrated microwave devices. Several high-quality well-oriented single crystal iron oxide films with various stoichiometry have been synthesized using the Molecular Beam Epitaxial (MBE) growth method and the structural properties of these have been analyzed by various surface and bulk sensitive techniques.