Abstract
CrSb film was deposited on KCl (100) substrates by magnetron sputtering. Strong ferromagnetism was observed in the CrSb film, which can be attributed to the CrSb phase with ferromagnetic zinc-blended structure. The investigated ZB-CrSb film about 5 nm in thickness is sufficiently thicker to be investigated the half-metallic nature of ZB-CrSb and to be practically applied in spintronics devices. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.