摘要:
Ferrite films (13) having excellent crystalline and magnetic properties are obtainable without high temperature (>500°C) processing if an appropriate template layer (12) is deposited on a conventional substrate body (11) (e.g., SrTiO 3 , cubic zirconia, Si), and the ferrite is deposited on the annealed template. The template is a spinel-structure metal oxide that has a lattice constant in the range 0.79-0.89 nm, preferably within about 0.015 nm of the lattice constant of the ferrite. Exemplarily, a NiFe 2 O 4 film was deposited at 400°C on a CoCr 2 O 4 template which had been deposited on (100) SrTiO 3 . The magnetization of the ferrite film at 4000 Oe was more than double the magnetization of a similarly deposited comparison ferrite film (NiFe 2 O 4 on SrTiO 3 ), and was comparable to that of a NiFe 2 O 4 film on SrTiO 3 that was annealed at 1000°C. The ability to produce ferrite films of good magnetic properties without high temperature treatment inter alia makes possible fabrication of on-board magnetic components (e.g., inductor) on Si chips designed for operation at relatively high frequencies, e.g., >10 MHz, even at about 100 MHz.