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Studies on Rare-Earth/Iron and Actinide/Iron Multilayers

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Multilayers of Ce/Fe and U/Fe were fabricated by sputtering and studied by X-ray diffraction and reflectivity, Mössbauer spectroscopy and polarised neutron reflectivity. Orientation of the magnetic moments of Fe layers out of the layer plane was observed for Ce/Fe multilayers with Fe layer thickness <17 Å. Analysis of a series of multilayers gave a large magnetic anisotropy of (0.98±0.15) mJm−2 for the Ce/Fe interface. No magnetic moments were detected on Ce or U layers.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, UK

    M. F. Thomas, G. S. Case, J. Bland, A. D. F. Herring & W. G. Stirling

  2. Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

    S. Tixier & P. Boni

  3. Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK

    R. C. C. Ward & M. R. Wells

  4. ISIS Facility, Rutherford–Appleton Laboratory, UK

    S. Langridge

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Thomas, M.F., Case, G.S., Bland, J. et al. Studies on Rare-Earth/Iron and Actinide/Iron Multilayers. Hyperfine Interactions 141, 471–476 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021221429978

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