{"id":1943,"date":"2011-03-09T13:20:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T21:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:22:32","slug":"epitaxial-growth-of-coxmnysiz-111-thin-films-in-the-compositional-range-around-the-heusler-alloy-co2mnsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/2011\/03\/09\/epitaxial-growth-of-coxmnysiz-111-thin-films-in-the-compositional-range-around-the-heusler-alloy-co2mnsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Epitaxial growth of Co(x)Mn(y)Si(z) (111) thin films in the compositional range around the Heusler alloy Co(2)MnSi."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epitaxial growth and structural properties of CoxMnySiz thin films on Ge 111 substrates, including<br \/>\nthe Heusler alloy Co2 MnSi 111, have been studied using combinatorial molecular beam epitaxy<br \/>\nMBE techniques. In situ reflection high energy electron diffraction and ex situ x-ray diffraction<br \/>\nexperiments show that high quality coherent MBE growth with fcc 111 stacking can be achieved<br \/>\nover a relatively large composition space that includes Co2 MnSi. The highest structural and<br \/>\nchemical ordering is observed near the composition of Co0.63Mn0.14Si0.23 rather than that at the<br \/>\nHeusler stoichiometry of Co2 MnSi. The in-plane crystallographic axis of the fcc film exhibits a 60\u00b0<br \/>\nrotation with respect to that of the Ge substrate. The rotation appears to be originated at the<br \/>\nfilm-substrate interface, as a result of the symmetry and stacking of the Ge 111 surface<br \/>\nreconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epitaxial growth and structural properties of CoxMnySiz thin films on Ge 111 substrates, including the Heusler alloy Co2 MnSi 111, have been studied using combinatorial molecular beam epitaxy MBE techniques. In situ reflection high energy electron diffraction and ex situ x-ray diffraction experiments show that high quality coherent MBE growth with fcc 111 stacking can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[409],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/carbon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}