Induced anisotropies in exchange-coupled systems on rippled substrates

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作者：

Liedke, M. O.

Liedke, B.

Keller, A.

Hillebrands, B.

Muecklich, A.

Facsko, S.

Fassbender, J.

机构：

[1] Forschungszentrum Dresden Rossen, Inst Ion Beam Phys & Mat Res, D-01314 Dresden, Germany

[2] Tech Univ Kaiserlautern, Fachbereich Phys, D-69663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2007年 / 75卷 / 22期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.220407

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

The role of monoatomic steps at the mutual interface between a ferromagnetic and an antiferromagnetic layer in a Ni81Fe19/Fe50Mn50 exchange bias system is enlightened. For this purpose a special ripple substrate with a well defined morphology is used. Due to the film morphology a strong uniaxial anisotropy is induced in the polycrystalline Ni81Fe19 layer, which is fixed in its orientation. By means of different field annealing cycles the direction of the induced unidirectional anisotropy can be chosen. For all mutual orientations both anisotropy contributions are superimposed independently and the angular dependence of the magnetization reversal behavior can be described perfectly by a coherent rotation model with one parameter set. In addition it is demonstrated that the magnitude of the unidirectional anisotropy contribution scales with the step density of the substrate, which is in full agreement with theoretical predictions.

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