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eaction zone of the tube furnace is heated to the reaction temperature in a heating rate of ~15<br />

˚C/min and stabilized at the deposition temperature for ~30 min before CVD reaction. The<br />

vaporize is preheated to the designated temperature with carrier gas flow and stabilize for ~30<br />

min. When the liquid precursor source is introduced into the vaporizer, its first directed into the<br />

exhaust by passing through the by-pass line, as shown in Fig.38. The vaporization process is<br />

stabilized for ~15 min before the valve to the reaction chamber is opened, from when the CVD<br />

reaction is started. A cooling trap with liquid nitrogen is used to trap the organic solvent or<br />

reaction by products to minimize contamination of pump oil (rotary vane vacuum pump). The as<br />

deposited thin film characterization by various techniques are introduced below.<br />

Chemical composition of the as deposited films are characterized by both XPS and EDX.<br />

For the XPS (PHI/APEX) measurement, non-monochromatic Al Kα (1486.6 eV) X-ray is used to<br />

irradiate the sample surface. Analysis area around 2 mm by 2 mm is selected by setting the<br />

appropriate electron entrance and exit slit size of the hemispherical electron spectrometer. For a<br />

typical XPS measurement, the X-ray beam power is set to 100W, the electron pass energy is set<br />

to 100 eV for a survey measurement and 25 eV for a high resolution measurement, and the<br />

electron take off angle is set to 45˚. The EDX detector is installed in a SEM system (JEOL/7000).<br />

A typical EDX measurement has electron beam energy of 20 KV, spot size of 8 and working<br />

distance of 10 mm. Measurements from few areas are averaged to get the final composition<br />

results. XRD (Philips X’pert Pro) is used to investigate crystallographic properties of the as-<br />

deposited films. Cu Kα (1.5418 Å) radiation is used as the X-ray source. All the samples are<br />

characterized under similar experimental conditions (with a nickel filter and 0.5˚ divergence slit<br />

size). For the rocking curve analysis, 2θ was fixed at the NiFe2O4 (200) diffraction angle of<br />

barium titanate while scanning ω. For the SEM characterization, electron beam conditions are<br />

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