Enhanced polarisation in platinum films adjacent to half-metallic Co2FeAl

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The half-metallic Heusler alloy Co2FeAl (CFA) is a promising candidate material for high-frequency spintronic devices. As many of these device structures involve bilayers of CFA and Pt, and rely on properties arising due to this interface for their functionality, understanding the proximity magnetisation that may be induced in Pt by proximity to CFA is very important. The polarisation usually found in Pt is too small to be observable by PNR. However, we find evidence from conventional magnetometry and resonant x-ray scattering for an unprecedented large polarisation in Pt layers beneath CFA thin films. We intend to use magnetic scattering length density profiles extracted from PNR to confirm and quantify uniform half-metallicity in CFA, magnetisation corresponding to an integer multiple of the Bohr magneton per formula unit, and the very large polarisation of Pt layers adjacent to it.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84763136
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84763136
Provenance
Creator Dr Christy Kinane; Professor Andrey Stachkevitch; Mr Sinan Azzawi; Dr Mohamed Belmeguenai; Dr Aidan Hindmarch; Dr Del Atkinson; Mr Ben Nicholson; Mr Ariam Mora-Hernández
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-10T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-13T08:00:00Z