Analysis of disordered stripe magnetic domains in strained epitaxial Ni(001) films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 18, 2001, Pages

  Hameed, S ^a   Talagala, P ^a   Naik, R ^a   Wenger, L E ^a   Naik, V M ^b   Proksch, R ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^c United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL;

ARTICLE; FILM; MAGNETISM; MICROSCOPY; MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0035507701     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.184406     Document Type: Article

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22. Values of D, L, and θ that minimize the free energy for a given film thickness were determined from a three-dimensional array of free energies (formula presented) calculated by varying D (1 nm steps), L (0.001 steps in (formula presented)), and θ(0.5° steps).
23. The uncertainties in the experimentally measured values of (formula presented) and (formula presented) give rise to less than a 5% variation in the domain size D, while even a 30% uncertainty in A, the least known parameter, would only result in a 10% change in the domain size D as determined from the minimization of the free energy.