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    Magnetic domain studies of cobalt nanostructures
    (2012) Nagaraja, H.S.; Nagaraja, K.K.; Rossignol, F.; Dumas-Bouchiat, F.; Champeaux, C.; Catherinot, A.
    The pulsed laser deposition technique associated with a low energy cluster beam is used to deposit cobalt thin films with a thickness 100-200 nm and cobalt dots of a diameter 100-200 nm on silicon substrates. The deposited thin films of Co are composed of clusters of a size 10- 50 nm, with very few large grains as revealed by atomic force microscopy. The observations performed by magnetic force microscopy on as-grown thin films reveal randomly distributed out-of-plane magnetic domain structures. These magnetic domains are aligned linearly by applying an external magnetic field either perpendicular or parallel to the substrate during the deposition. In addition, the effect of film thickness and roughness on multidomains is reported. The increase of roughness resulted in the decrease of magnetic domain width from 200 to 100 nm. This decrease is accompanied by the appearance of instability in the stripe domain pattern. Well separated cobalt dots of diameter in the range of 100-200 nm are also deposited on silicon substrates, which show arc-like multidomains. The domains seem to be oriented along the long axis of the dots. The domain structure of Co nanodots is similar to that of Co thin films indicating strong magnetic coupling of clusters. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.
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    Enriched optoelectronic properties of cobalt-doped ZnO thin films for photodetector applications
    (Springer, 2021) Vinoth, S.; Arulanantham, A.M.S.; Saravanakumar, S.; Rimal Isaac, R.S.; Soundaram, N.; Chidhambaram, N.; Alagarasan, D.; Varadharajaperumal, S.; Shkir, M.; AlFaify, S.
    Cobalt-doped ZnO (ZnO:Co) thin films were synthesized using the chemical bath deposition technique for their potential application in ultraviolet (UV) photosensing. All the prepared samples were characterized using XRD, FESEM, EDX, PL, XPS, and UV–Vis absorption techniques. The UV photosensing property of the thin films was examined under the illumination of UV light (365 nm). The structural and morphological investigations reveal that the ZnO:Co samples have a hexagonal wurtzite crystal structure with nanowire morphology. An increase in crystallite size and a decrease in the bandgap of the samples were observed owing to the replacement of the Co2+ ions in the regular sites of Zn2+. The PL spectra show some defect emission peaks in the visible region because of the occurrence of oxygen vacancies, which suggests a high photoabsorption property of the samples. The XPS study was performed to understand the existence of elements and their binding states in the fabricated thin films. The UV photosensing studies reveal that the highest responsivity of 0.918 AW?1 was achieved for the ZnO:Co (1%) sample. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.