Interlayer magnetic coupling in epitaxial Fe/Cr(211) and (100) superlattices

Autor: J. E. Mattson, S. D. Bader, C. H. Sowers, Eric E. Fullerton
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia. 33:1637-1642
ISSN: 0956-716X
DOI: 10.1016/0956-716x(95)00417-t
Popis: The authors present magnetic characterization of epitaxial Fe/Cr(211) and Fe/Cr(100) superlattices grown simultaneously on MgO(110) and (100) substrates, respectively. At room temperature, the coupling for these two orientations oscillates in sign with the same period (18{angstrom}), phase and strength. These results indicate that the long-period oscillation is independent of the nested feature of the Cr Fermi-surface. They examine the temperature dependence of interlayer coupling and find a uniform AF bias develops in the (211) samples upon cooling and observe strongly temperature-dependent biquadratic coupling in the (100) samples.
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