Ej. Escorciaaparicio et al., STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES OF FACE-CENTERED-CUBIC FE FILMS GROWN ON CO(100), Journal of applied physics, 79(8), 1996, pp. 4964-4966
A rich variety of magnetic and structural properties; have been found
in fee Fe films grown on Cu(100). In order to better comprehend the re
lation between the magnetic and structural properties of fee Fe, we in
vestigated fee Fe films grown by molecular beam epitaxy on fee Co(100)
. Structural characterization by low-energy electron diffraction and r
eflection high-energy electron diffraction indicate that the structura
l properties of fcc Fe films grown on Co(100) at room temperature are
very similar to those of fee Pe on Cu(100), exhibiting three distinct
regions (fct, fee, and bcc), with characteristic reconstructions at th
e boundaries. Magnetic measurements with in situ surface magneto-optic
Ken effect (SMOKE) reveal in-plane magnetization at room temperature
for the three regions. Regions I and III are ferromagnetic, while regi
on II has a small Ken signal which is constant throughout the region.
Cusps in the coercivity of the SMOKE loops are found to correspond to
transitions between the three regions. Oxygen absorption experiments p
erformed at room temperature revealed no change in the magnetization o
f region II, suggesting that the live layers responsible for the magne
tic signal in this region are not at the surface. (C) 1996 American In
stitute of Physics.