Ag – Co (Silver – Cobalt)

Volodymyr Ivanchenko, Nathalie Lebrun, Marie Christine Record

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Since the last review by [1986Kar], [2001Li] determined the existence of two metastable phases in the Ag-rich part by means of ion mixing of multiple metal layers. Two sets of Ag-Co multilayered samples with three and six bilayers were made with fixed total thickness of 40 mm. The overall compositions were checked by energy dispersive spectrum analysis with an error of ±3%. Ion mixing experiments were carried out at room temperature by 200 keV Xe ions to various doses in an implanter with a vacuum level better than 5•10^-6 torr. TEM examinations and selected area diffraction techniques were carried out for identifying the resulting structure.