Controllable two- vs three-state magnetization switching in single-layer epitaxial Pd1-xFex films and epitaxial Pd0.92Fe0.08/Ag/Pd0.96Fe0.04 heterostructure

Autor: Igor Yanilkin, Amir Gumarov, Gulnaz Gizzatullina, Roman Yusupov, Lenar Tagirov
Rok vydání: 2021
Popis: We have investigated the low-temperature magnetoresistive properties of a thin epitaxial Pd0.92Fe0.08 film at different directions of the current and the applied magnetic field. The obtained experimental results are well described within an assumption of a single-domain magnetic state of the film. In a wide range of the appled field directions, the magnetization reversal proceeds in two steps via the intermediate easy axis. An epitaxial heterostructure of two magnetically separated ferromagnetic layers, Pd0.92Fe0.08/Ag/Pd0.96Fe0.04, was synthesized and studied with the dc magnetometry. Its magnetic configuration diagram has been constructed and the conditions have been determined for a controllable switching between stable parallel, orthogonal, and antiparallel arrangements of magnetic moments of the layers.
Databáze: OpenAIRE