Soft X-ray resonant magnetic scattering from thin Ni layers on Cu(110)

Resonant scattering of elliptically polarised soft X-rays has been used to investigate the magnetic properties of thin uncapped Ni layers grown on Cu( 110). In our experiment, performed at room temperature, Ni is found to have no net magnetic moment in the surface plane up to 6 ML. Starting from 10 a nd up to 30 ML a magnetic signal is observed that can be reproduced by calc ulations which assume the bulk magnetic properties of Ni. Our results are c ompared to those of previous studies on Ni/Cu(001) layers. (C) 1999 Elsevie r Science B.V. All rights reserved.