| Summary: | Within this thesis, a comprehensive study of the initial growth process of pure Fe3O4 films and Fe3O4/NiO bilayers on Nb:SrTiO3(001) substrates including the thermal interdiffusion behavior of these bilayers is presented. The sensitive interplay between magnetic, electronic and structural properties of these materials has been investigated in detail. In the first study, the initial growth behavior of high-quality ultrathin magnetite films on SrTiO3(001) deposited by reactive molecular beam epitaxy depending on the deposition temperature has been analyzed. For this purpose, the growth process has been monitored in situ and during the deposition by grazing incidence x-ray diffraction (GIXRD). The second part provides a comparative study of Fe3O4/NiO bilayers grown on both MgO(001) and Nb:SrTiO3(001) substrates exploring morphological, structural and magnetic properties. These structures have been investigated by means of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), x-ray reflectivity (XRR) and diffraction (XRD), as well as vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). Subsequently, thermal stability of these bilayers and the thermally induced interdiffusion process have been studied successively accompanied by a comprehensive characterization of the fundamental electronic, structural and magnetic properties using additional techniques such as angle resolved hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AR-HAXPES) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD). Finally, an alternative pathway for the preparation of ultrathin nickel ferrite films through interdiffusion is provided.
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