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The Co/CaF2/Si(001) heterostructures with the corrugated (110) surface of the CaF2 buffer layer have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The structures are nanoparticle arrays of single-crystal Co, mostly of the cubic fcc modification. The behavior of the magnetic hysteresis loops as a function of the density of coverage of the substrate by cobalt islands, the island size, and the temperature is studied using the magnetooptical technique. At low coverage densities, where the effective cobalt film thickness d eff is less than the critical value d ceff , the magnetic structure of the films at T = 294 K can be visualized as an ensemble of superparamagnetic, weakly interacting nanoparticles and is characterized by small values of the coercive field H c and the remanent magnetization M rem. A decrease in the temperature leads to a strong increase in H c and M rem, which is associated with the transition of the islands to the blocked state. The blocking temperature of the structures is T b ∼ 280 K. The magnetic anisotropy parameter K and the saturation magnetization M s of the islands depend on the growth temperature of cobalt T Co. An increase in the coverage density above the critical thickness d ciff at T = 294 K brings about a strong increase in H c and M rem and the appearance of a hysteresis loop anisotropy originating from the corrugated structure of the CaF2 buffer layer. The experimental results are compared with the model of an ensemble of noninteracting superparamagnetic particles.
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Original Russian Text © B.B. Krichevtsov, S.V. Gastev, D.S. Il’yushchenkov, A.K. Kaveev, N.S. Sokolov, 2009, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2009, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 109–117.
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Krichevtsov, B.B., Gastev, S.V., Il’yushchenkov, D.S. et al. Magnetic properties of arrays of cobalt nanoparticles on the CaF2(110)/Si(001) surface. Phys. Solid State 51, 118–126 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783409010156
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