Thin Film oxidation of metals at the Curie temperature

✍ Scribed by Dr. B. Chatterjee

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 218 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0947-5117
• DOI: 10.1002/maco.19770280205

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Anomalies in the Arrhenius plot of the thin film (10^2^–10^5^ Å) oxidation of nickel and iron at the Curie temperature are discussed. Amongst the various theories, a mechanism which takes into account the importance of both the surface‐state charge at the metal/oxide interface and the space charge int he oxide during the logarithmic oxidation of metals, is considered suitable to explain such anomalies.