Spin Reorientations Induced by Morphology Changes in Fe/Ag(001)
arXiv:cond-mat/9808236 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.59.14516
Abstract
By means of magneto-optical Kerr effect we observe spin reorientations from in-plane to out-of-plane and vice versa upon annealing thin Fe films on Ag(001) at increasing temperatures. Scanning tunneling microscopy images of the different Fe films are used to quantify the surface roughness. The observed spin reorientations can be explained with the experimentally acquired roughness parameters by taking into account the effect of roughness on both the magnetic dipolar and the magnetocrystalline anisotropy.
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