PNR determination of magnetic interface states in ultrathin FePt/FeRh films

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We propose to use polarized neutron reflectivity (PNR) to investigate the structural and magnetic properties of thin (< 10nm) exchange coupled FePt/FeRh films. FePt/FeRh is an artificial multifunctional material that responses to both heat and magnetic fields due to the antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic phase transition that occurs in FeRh at around 100°C. Exchange coupled FePt/FeRh films are of particular interest as data storage media for heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) as they offer the potential to reduce the heat load need for recording which is a key industry challenge. Our objective in this experiment is to investigate the interplay and exchange coupling between the FeRh and FePt layers vs temperature and hence undercover the rich physics that occurs at the interface between these two materials which is key to developing future applications.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90588314
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90588314
Provenance
Creator Miss Charlotte Bull; Dr Craig Barton; Professor Thomas Thomson; Dr Christy Kinane; Dr William Griggs; Dr Alexander Lincoln
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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 Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-03-13T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-03-19T08:44:14Z