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In-plane magnetic surface anisotropies in Fe(110)

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In-plane magnetic surface anisotropies have been detected for Fe(110) on W(110) using in situ Conversion Electron Mössbauer Spectroscopy (CEMS). The phenomenon used for the determination of this anisotropy was a switching of the spontaneous magnetizationJ s from [001] to [1¯10] with decreasing thickness. Analysis of the data is performed using a homogeneous magnetization approximation for competing surface and bulk anisotropies, which is justified by a micromagnetic analysis and established experimentally by CEMS. In-plane surface anisotropy constants for the clean Fe(110) surface, the Fe metal-interface and the FeGaAs interface are determined toK FeUHVs,p =0.065 erg·cm−2,K FeMetals,p =0.040 erg ·cm−2, andK FeGaAss,p =0.047 erg ·cm−2, all with an estimated accuracy of the order of 10%.

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  1. J. Korecki

    Present address: Solid State Physics Department, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland

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  1. Physikalisches Institut, Technische Universität Clausthal, D-3392, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Fed. Rep. Germany

    U. Gradmann, J. Korecki & G. Waller

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Gradmann, U., Korecki, J. & Waller, G. In-plane magnetic surface anisotropies in Fe(110). Appl. Phys. A 39, 101–108 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00616826

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