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Magnetic Oxide Heterostructures: EuO on Cubic Oxides ... - JuSER

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List of Figures<br />

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5.12. Resulting Gibbs free energies of EuO/Si interface reactions involving SiO 2 during<br />

EuO synthesis ................................... 101<br />

5.13. Resulting Gibbs free energies of EuO/Si interface reactions involving Europium<br />

hydroxide ........................................ 102<br />

5.14. Free energy of nucleation ΔG(j) for different saturations Δμ ........... 103<br />

5.15. Surface processes for a magnetic oxide on Si deposition ............. 104<br />

5.16. Si (001) surface reconstructions ........................... 105<br />

5.17. Hydrogen termination of the clean Si (001) surface ................ 106<br />

5.18. Surface and interface structure of EuO on Si (001) and on H-passivated Si (001) 107<br />

5.19. The EuO/H-Si interface analyzed by peak fitting of the HAXPES Si 2p core-levels109<br />

5.20. Quantitative results of the EuO/H-Si silicide analysis ............... 110<br />

5.21. Magnetic properties of EuO on H-Si dependent on synthesis temperature ... 110<br />

5.22. Eu monolayers on top of the Si (001) surface under surface diffusion ...... 112<br />

5.23. The EuO/Eu-Si interface analyzed by RHEED and HAXPES of Si 2p and 1s<br />

core-levels ....................................... 113<br />

5.24. Quantitative results of the SiO x analysis in EuO/Eu-Si .............. 114<br />

5.25. The EuO/Si interface with a combined minimization of silicides and SiO x ... 115<br />

5.26. The EuO/Si interface: summary of silicide, SiO x , and the combined minimization117<br />

5.27. Magnetic properties of EuO on passivated Si (001) under controlled addition<br />

of silicide ........................................ 118<br />

5.28. Consistent peak fit analysis of the SiO x -passivated EuO/Si (001) interface using<br />

Si and Eu core-levels ............................... 119<br />

5.29. Quantification of the SiO x passivation and silicides at the EuO/SiO x -Si interface<br />

by HAXPES .................................... 120<br />

5.30. Magnetic properties of epitaxial EuO/Si hybrids with SiO x passivation ..... 121<br />

A.1. EuO in relation to the substrates YSZ (001), MgO (001), LAO (100), and Si (001) 127<br />

A.2. Structure and (001) plane of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) ........... 129<br />

A.3. Rhombohedral and pseudo cubic structure of LaAlO3 (LAO) .......... 129<br />

A.4. In situ Auger analysis of the Si (001) surface with different types of hydrogen<br />

passivation ....................................... 131

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