Magneto-optical Kerr effect in Fe 21Ni 79 films on Si(100): Quantum behavior for film thicknesses below ∼6 nm

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4197-4199

  Talmadge, J M ^a   Gao, J ^a   Riley, M P ^a   Roth, R J ^a   Kim, S O ^a   Eden, J G ^a   Pudonin, F A ^b   Mel'nikov, I V ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC SUPERLATTICE STRUCTURES; MAGNETOTRANSPORT STRUCTURES; SPIN TUNNELING;

AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEPOSITION; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; PHOTODIODES; QUANTUM THEORY; RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 2942689947     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1737465     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. M. Julliere, Phys. Lett. 54A, 225 (1975).
2. M. N. Baibich, J. M. Broto, A. Fert, F. N. van Dau, F. Petroff, P. E. Etienne, G. Creuzet, A. Friedrich, and J. Chazelas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2472 (1988).
3. M. B. Salamon, S. Sinha, J. J. Rhyne, J. E. Cunningham, R. W. Erwin, J. Borchers, and C. P. Flynn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 259 (1986).
4. P. Grünberg, R. Schreiber, Y. Pang, M. B. Brodsky, and H. Sowers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 2442 (1986).
5. For a recent example, see M. Urech, V. Korenivski, and D. B. Haviland, J. Appl. Phys. 92, 6062 (2002).
6. B. Dieny, V. Speriosu, S. Metin, S. Parkin, B. Gurney, P. Baumgart, and D. Wilhoit, J. Appl. Phys. 69, 4774 (1991).
7. C. Tsang, R. E. Fontana, T. Lin, D. E. Heim, V. S. Speriosu, B. A. Gurney, and M. L. Williams, IEEE Trans. Magn. 30, 3801 (1994).
8. R. P. Cowburn, D. A. Allwood, G. Xiong, and M. D. Cooke, J. Appl. Phys. 91, 6949 (2002).
9. W. Scholz, D. Suess, T. Schrefl, and J. Fidler, J. Appl. Phys. 91, 7047 (2002).
10. See, for example, S. T. Ruggiero, A. Williams, C. E. Tanner, S. Potashnik, J. Moreland, and W. H. Rippard, Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 4599 (2003).
11. T. Trunk, M. Redjdal, A. Kákay, M. F. Ruane, and F. B. Humphrey, J. Appl. Phys. 89, 7606 (2001).
12. M. Johnson, J. Appl. Phys. 75, 6714 (1994).
13. E. E. Fullerton, J. E. Mattson, S. R. Lee, C. H. Sowers, Y. Y. Huang, G. Felcher, and S. D. Bader, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 117, L301 (1992).
14. J. Kohlhepp, M. Valkier, A. van der Graaf, and F. J. A. den Broeder, Phys. Rev. B 55, R696 (1997).