Spin-flop transition driven by exchange springs in ErFe2/YFe2 multilayers
Spin-flop transition driven by exchange springs in ErFe2/YFe2 multilayers
Magnetization loops for (110) ErFe2/YFe2 multilayer films grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) are presented and discussed. The easy axis for the hard ErFe2 layers is near an out of plane <111> type crystal axis. At low temperatures there is just one irreversible switch of the hard layers, accompanied by the formation of magnetic exchange springs in the soft YFe2 layers. However, above a certain temperature the coercivity changes sign and there are additional high field transitions. This cross-over temperature, TCO, depends upon the composition of the multilayers. In sufficiently high fields, perpendicular to the multilayer film plane, the energy is minimized by an exchange spring driven multilayer spin-flop state. The composition dependence of TCO is explained with a simple energy argument.
rare earth, multilayer, exchange springs
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19 April 2007
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Zimmermann, J.P.
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Martin, K.N., Wang, K., Bowden, G.J., de Groot, P.A.J., Zimmermann, J.P., Fangohr, Hans and Ward, R.C.C.
(2007)
Spin-flop transition driven by exchange springs in ErFe2/YFe2 multilayers.
Journal of Applied Physics, 101 (9), .
(doi:10.1063/1.2672248).
Abstract
Magnetization loops for (110) ErFe2/YFe2 multilayer films grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) are presented and discussed. The easy axis for the hard ErFe2 layers is near an out of plane <111> type crystal axis. At low temperatures there is just one irreversible switch of the hard layers, accompanied by the formation of magnetic exchange springs in the soft YFe2 layers. However, above a certain temperature the coercivity changes sign and there are additional high field transitions. This cross-over temperature, TCO, depends upon the composition of the multilayers. In sufficiently high fields, perpendicular to the multilayer film plane, the energy is minimized by an exchange spring driven multilayer spin-flop state. The composition dependence of TCO is explained with a simple energy argument.
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rare earth, multilayer, exchange springs
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