Magnetic ordering and anisotropies of atomically layered Fe/Au(001) multilayers

Autor: N. Knorr, R. Schreiber, Sergej O. Demokritov, Peter Grünberg, J. Jorzick, Burkard Hillebrands, S. Riedling, C. Mathieu
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. :348-350
ISSN: 0304-8853
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-8853(98)01126-3
Popis: We investigate the temperature dependence of the magnetization reversal process and of spinwaves in epitaxially grown (0 0 1)-oriented [Fe m /Au n ] 30 multilayers ( m =1, 2; n =1–6). Both polar magneto-optic Kerr effect and Brillouin light scattering measurements reveal that all investigated multilayers, apart from the [Fe 2 /Au 1 ] 30 -sample, are magnetized perpendicular to the film plane. The out-of-plane anisotropy constants are obtained. At high temperature, the magnetization curves are well described by an alternating stripe domain structure with free mobile domain walls, and at low temperature by a thermal activation model for the domain wall motion.
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