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Oscillatory Angular Dependence of Exchange Bias for Epitaxial NiO−Co (001) Bilayers
We have sputter-deposited NiO-Co bilayers on MgO (001) substrates. NiO grows epitaxially on MgO at 900°C and subsequently the room deposited 80 Åthick Co films have a fcc crystal structure in epitaxy with the ...
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Exchange-Biased Nio−Co Nanofaceted Bilayers Grown on MgO (110)
We have sputter-grown self-organised faceted NiO-Co epitaxial bilayers on MgO(110). Due to very close lattice parameters, NiO adopts the same NaCl crystallographic structure as the substrate but it minimises i...
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Epitaxial NiO-Co exchange-biased bilayers grown on MgO single crystals Influence of the substrate orientation on the film morphology, the Co structure and the magnetic behavior
Co/NiO bilayers have been grown on MgO(001), MgO(110) and MgO(111) substrates in an ultra high vacuum sputtering chamber. Growth mode and surface morphology are investigated by X-ray diffraction, Reflection Hi...
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Magneto-Resistance and Induced Domain Structure in Tunnel Junctions
Magnetization reversals in sputtered Co electrodes of a magnetic tunnel junction are studied using transport measurements, magneto-optic Kerr magnetometry and microscopy. Using the tunnel magneto-resistive eff...
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Specular and Off-Specular X-Ray Scattering as Quantitative Structural Probes of Multilayers. Application to MN/IR(111) Superlattices
Diffuse scattering of X rays is a particularly useful tool for studying interface and surface defects in single layer films. We have extended this technique to the study of multilayers. The samples are Mn/Ir(1...
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\(\mbox{\sffamily\bfseries NiFe}_{\hbox{\sffamily\bfseries\fontsize{12}{12}\selectfont 2}}\mbox{\sffamily\bfseries O}_{\hbox{\sffamily\bfseries\fontsize{12}{12}\selectfont 4}}\) and \(\mbox{\sffamily\bfseries Fe}_{\hbox{\sffamily\bfseries\fontsize{12}{12}\selectfont 3}}\mbox{\sffamily\bfseries O}_{\hbox{\sffamily\bfseries\fontsize{12}{12}\selectfont 4}}\) studied by XMCD and resonant photoemission
X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and resonant photoemission at the Fe and Ni L2,3 edges have been used to investigate the electronic structure of NiFe2O4 (NFO) thin films. The results, when compared to those obt...
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Complex angular dependence of exchange bias on (001) epitaxial NiO-Co bilayers
We have sputter-deposited NiO-Co bilayers on MgO(001) substrates. NiO and Co grow epitaxially on MgO and reproduce its fcc structure. The high quality of our samples, in terms of flatness and crystallographic ...
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Exchange anisotropy in Co/NiO bilayers: time-dependent effects
The time dependence of the exchange anisotropy was studied in Co/NiO bilayers. In order to only observe the relaxation phenomena inside the antiferromagnetic (AF) layer and to eliminate the dynamic behaviour i...
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Tuning the growth orientation of NiFe2O4 films by appropriate underlayer selection
We have grown NiFe2O4 thin films on (001)-oriented SrTiO3 and (001)-oriented Pt underlayers. Although these two templates present a similar lattice mismatch with NiFe2O4 (about -6%), the ferrite grows cube-on-cu...
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Magnetic behavior and role of the antiphase boundaries in Fe3O4 epitaxial films sputtered on MgO (001)
Magnetite Fe3O4 films were grown on single crystal MgO (001) substrates using facing target sputtering technique. Conversion Electron Mössbauer Spectroscopy and magneto optical polar Kerr spectra have confirmed t...
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Growth and Characterization of Epitaxial NiMnSb/PtMnSb C1b Heusler alloy superlattices
We have sputter deposited NiMnSb/PtMnSb Heusler alloy superlattices with bilayer periods from 9–160 Å. X-ray diffraction and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) measurements indicate that ev...
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Structural and Magnetic Properties of XMnSb/PtMnSb Clb Heusler Alloy Superlattices (X=Ni,Cu)
We have grown superlattices based on the Clb Heusler alloys PtMnSb, CuMnSb and NiMnSb between 200-500/dgC on A12O3 (0001). X-ray diffraction (XRD) indicates (111) oriented ordered structures for growth at 300/dgC...
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Stability of Nitrogen in Sputtered Iron Nitride thin films and Multilayers
Different phases of FeN thin films and Fe/FeN multilayers were prepared by reactive rf sputtering. The release of nitrogen and the crystallographic transformations during annealing were monitored by thermal de...
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Structural Transformations During Growth of Epitaxial Fe(001) Thin Films on Cu(001) and Pt(001)
We have used grazing incidence x-ray diffraction to observe the structural evolution during growth of sputter-deposited epitaxial Fe films on Cu(001) and Pt(001). We find that on Cu(001), Fe is fcc up to a thi...
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Structural properties and thermal stability of Fe/Al2O3 multilayers
Iron/alumina multilayers have been deposited on sapphire wafers using RF magnetron sputtering. To study the interdiffusion, the multilayers were annealed in a tubular furnace under a 10−7 mbar vacuum, and the sam...
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Magnetic and Structural Properties of Iron Nitride thin Films Obtained by Argon-Nitrogen Reactive Radio-Frequency Sputtering
Fe-N thin films have attracted considerable attention because they are potential candidates for magnetic recording with their large saturation magnetization and their good corrosion resistance1. It has even been ...
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Effect of Ion Irradiation on the Artificial Structure and the Interlayer Coupling of Copper-Cobalt Multilayers
Structural defects like local ferromagnetic short-circuits are responsible for large reductions of the intrinsic interlayer coupling in the case of antiferromagnetically (AF) coupled multilayers (ML). We have ...
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Modification of Magnetic Coupling in Antiferromagnetically Coupled Bilayers Due to the Existence of Ferromagnetic Pin Holes.
We have calculated numerical simulations and analytical solutions of the influence of a pin hole on the magnetization curves of multilayer systems. The magnetization curves we obtained can be described by a bi...
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Evidence for Spin Polarization of Metallic Copper in Co/Cu and Fe/Cu Multilayers
Magnetic circular x-ray dichroism measurements on Co/Cu and Fe/Cu multilayers at the K edge of copper show that the 4p-states of copper are significantly spin-polarized by the adjacent magnetic layers. In relatio...
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Magnetic Properties of Fe/Ru and Fe/Ir Superlattices with Short Periodicity
We present new results on the magnetic properties of constrained, iron base, good quality, single-crystalline superlattices, Fe/Ru and Fe/Ir. It is shown that in the first case there are two magnetically dead ...