Special Issue “Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films: Recent Advances and Challenge”

Pulsed Laser Deposition of Hydroxyapatite Thin Films

Pulsed laser deposition of VO2 thin films

High quality vanadium dioxide ~VO2! thin films have been successfully deposited by pulsed laser deposition without postannealing on ~0001! and ~101̄0! sapphire substrates. X-ray diffraction reveals that the films are highly oriented with ~010! planes parallel to the surface of the substrate. VO2 thin films on ~0001! and ~101̄0! substrates show semiconductor to metal transistions with electrical r...

Investigation of Magnetite Thin-Films Produced by Pulsed Laser Deposition

Thin-films of magnetite, F@04 have been produced by the XeCl excimer laser ablation of both Fe304 and metallic Fe targets. The ablation of metallic Fe has been shown to produce about two orders of magnitude smaller concentration of boulders than the ablation of bulk magnetite. The use of single-crystal, latticematching substrates was found to be necessary at lower fluences (1 3 J cm-') for the ...

PULSED LASER DEPOSITION OF Ni-Zn FERRITE THIN FILMS

Thin Ni0.5 Zn0.5 Fe2 O4 ferrite films were grown on different condition on different substrates using pulsed laser deposition technique. Studying the influence of the energy of the laser beam, of the O2 pressure, of the substrate temperature, and of the distance between the target and the substrate on the microstructure and on the magnetic properties were established optimal conditions for PLD ...

Pulsed Laser Deposition of Epitaxial Titanium Diboride Thin Films

Epitaxial titanium diboride thin films have been deposited on sapphire substrates by Pulsed Laser Ablation technique. Structural properties of the films have been studied during the growth by Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED) and ex-situ by means of X-ray diffraction techniques; both kinds of measurements indicate a good crystallographic orientation of the TiB 2 film both in p...