Large anisotropic Fe orbital moments in perpendicularly magnetized Co 2FeAl Heusler alloy thin films revealed by angular-dependent x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Okabayashi, Jun ^a   Sukegawa, Hiroaki ^b   Wen, Zhenchao ^b   Inomata, Koichiro ^b   Mitani, Seiji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT SPECIFIC MAGNETIZATIONS; FERROMAGNETIC COUPLING; HEUSLER ALLOYS; ORBITAL MAGNETIC MOMENT; ORBITAL MOMENT; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SPIN MAGNETIC MOMENTS; X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM;

CARBON DIOXIDE; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; SPECTROSCOPY; THIN FILMS;

IRON ALLOYS;

EID: 84884260798     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4819915     Document Type: Article

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