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MgO thickness-induced spin reorientation transition in Co0.9Fe0.1/MgO/Co0.9Fe0.1 structure

Authors :
Lasek, Kinga
Gladczuk, Leszek
Sawicki, Maciej
Aleshkevych, Pavlo
Przyslupski, Piotr
Source :
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 444C (2017) pp. 326-331
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

The magnetic anisotropy (MA) of Mo/Au/Co0.9Fe0.1/Au/MgO(0.7 - 3 nm)/Au/Co0.9Fe0.1/Au heterostructure has been investigated at room temperature as a function of MgO layer thickness (tMgO). Our studies show that while the MA of the top layer does not change its character upon variation of tMgO, the uniaxial out-of-plane MA of the bottom one undergoes a spin reorientation transition at tMgO of about 0.8 nm, switching to the regime where the coexistence of in- and out-of-plane magnetization alignments is observed. The magnitudes of the magnetic anisotropy constants have been determined from ferromagnetic resonance and dc-magnetometry measurements. The origin of MA evolution has been attributed to a presence of an interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) between Co0.9Fe0.1 layers through the thin MgO film.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 444C (2017) pp. 326-331
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1708.07382
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2017.08.029