Temperature-induced sign change of the magnetic interlayer coupling in Ni/Ni25Mn75/Ni trilayers on Cu3Au(001)
| Autor: | Chii-Bin Wu, Oliver Sandig, Mustafa Erkovan, Bin Zhang, Wolfgang Kuch, Yasser A. Shokr |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Materials science
Kerr effect RKKY interaction Condensed matter physics General Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect Condensed Matter::Materials Science Magnetization Exchange bias Ferromagnetism Condensed Matter::Superconductivity Monolayer Antiferromagnetism Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons Néel temperature |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Physics. 117:175302 |
| ISSN: | 1089-7550 0021-8979 |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.4919597 |
| Popis: | We investigated the magnetic interlayer coupling between two ferromagnetic (FM) Ni layers through an antiferromagnetic (AFM) Ni 25Mn75 layer and the influence of this coupling on the exchange bias phenomenon. The interlayer coupling energy of an epitaxial trilayer of 14 atomic monolayers (ML) Ni/45 ML Ni 25Mn75/16 ML Ni on Cu3Au(001) was extracted from minor-loop magnetization measurements using in-situ magneto-optical Kerr effect. The interlayer coupling changes from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic when the temperature is increased above 300 K. This sign change is interpreted as the result of the competition between an antiparallel Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY)-type interlayer coupling, which dominates at high temperature, and a stronger direct exchange coupling across the AFM layer, which is present only below the Néel temperature of the AFM layer. |
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