ORIENTATIONALLY INDEPENDENT ANTIFERROMAGNETIC COUPLING IN EPITAXIAL FE CR (211) AND (100) SUPERLATTICES/

Authors
FULLERTON EE CONOVER MJ MATTSON JE SOWERS CH BADER SD
Citation
Ee. Fullerton et al., ORIENTATIONALLY INDEPENDENT ANTIFERROMAGNETIC COUPLING IN EPITAXIAL FE CR (211) AND (100) SUPERLATTICES/, Journal of applied physics, 75(10), 1994, pp. 6461-6463
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Journal of applied physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00218979
Volume
75
Issue
10
Year of publication
1994
Part
2B
Pages
6461 - 6463
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-8979(1994)75:10<6461:OIACIE>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
We present structural and magnetic characterization of epitaxial Fe/Cr (211) and Fe/Cr(100) superlattices grown simultaneously on MgO(110) an d MgO(100) substrates by magnetron sputtering. The epitaxial orientati on of the Fe/Cr(211) superlattice with the MgO(110) substrate is Fe/Cr [011]//MgO[001] and the orientation of Fe/Cr(100) is Fe/Cr[001]//MgO[0 11]. We find that for both orientations, that the interlayer coupling oscillates in sip with a period of 18 angstrom, and, furthermore, that the strength and phase of the magnetic coupling are also nearly ident ical for these two orientations.