Study of canted magnetic states in GdCo/Si/Co/Si multilayers

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Magnetic rare earth/transition metal (RE/TM) multilayers have been a subject of considerableinterest in recent years, given the antiferromagnetic exchange coupling between RE and TMlayers, and a wide variety of magnetic configurations created by temperature and field. Forpractical applications, there is a clear advantage replacing the RE element by a RE-TM alloy, in order tu tune the Curie point Tc. In this proposal we focus on the effect of a nonmagnetic spacer (Si) between Co and amorphous GdCo layers in [Co/Si/GdCo/Si]4/Co multilayers. The aim of the experiment is to study how the spacer affects the twisted state appearing at high fields due to the change of an exchange interaction and additional contribution of the charge transfer, effects which can only be adequately studied using Polarised Neutron Reflectivity with an analyser.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089221
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089221
Provenance
Creator Dr Timothy Charlton; Dr Ricardo Lopez-Anton; Dr Jose Manuel Barandiaran; Professor Galina Kourliandskaia; Dr Andrey Svalov
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-07-16T08:05:54Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-07-30T08:03:05Z