Morphological evolution and surface/interface Fe-oxide formation in epitaxial Fe(001)/MgO(001) thin film

Epitaxial Fe film has been grown on ion beam sputtered MgO(001) substrate by electron beam evaporation. Reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and transport measurements ™ were performed simultaneously during the growth of the film. While TM provided information about film morphology, RHEED provided information about the structure of the film.