Effect of Thickness on the Hysteresis Cycles of Ni/NiO Multilayer Structure Prepared Using RF Sputtering Technique

Abstract

In this work, an experimental investigation of the impact of the thickness parameter on the magnetic, structural and hysteresis cycle characteristics of thin Ni-based (Ni/NiO) multi-layers was carried out. The multilayer structure has been deposited using RF sputtering technique at room temperature. A comprehensive study of the deposited structure was performed by analyzing the structural and hysteresis cycle characteristics via appropriate experimental facilities such as X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and magnetometer (VSM) platform, in order to plot the experimental cycles of hysteresis properties as a function of temperature and the thickness of the multilayer structure.