Brillouin light scattering study of the magnetic anisotropy in bcc-Fe(100) ultrathin films grown on GaAs(100) surfaces with different reconstructions

Seung Seok Ha; Nam Hee Kim; Chun Yeol You; Sukmock Lee; Kenta Ohta; Takuto Maruyama; Katsunori Konishi; Takayuki Nozaki; Yoshishige Suzuki; Willem Van Roy

doi:10.1109/TMAG.2009.2018659

Brillouin light scattering study of the magnetic anisotropy in bcc-Fe(100) ultrathin films grown on GaAs(100) surfaces with different reconstructions

Seung Seok Ha, Nam Hee Kim, Chun Yeol You, Sukmock Lee, Kenta Ohta, Takuto Maruyama, Katsunori Konishi, Takayuki Nozaki, Yoshishige Suzuki, Willem Van Roy

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Abstract

We investigated the magnetic anisotropy of ultrathin bcc-Fe (001) films with a fcc-Au(001) cover layer, grown onto GaAs (001) (4 × 1) and (2 × 6)/(3 × 6) reconstructed surfaces. The magneto-optical Kerr effect hysteresis loops revealed existence of a strong in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in the Fe films grown on both the surfaces. Details of the in-plane uniaxial anisotropy (K_U), cubic anisotropy (K_C), and effective demagnetization field (47πM_eff ) were studied by Brillouin light scattering method. We observed a stronger reduction of K _U, K_C , and 4πM_eff in thinner Fe layers (below 1.3 nm) grown on both the surfaces. In the case of Fe films grown on GaAs (4 × 1) surface, anisotropies observed were smaller than that for the (2 × 6)/(3 × 6) surface. This reflects the role of surface structure in determining the magnetic anisotropies.

Original language	English
Article number	4957701
Pages (from-to)	2527-2530
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume	45
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2009.2018659
State	Published - Jun 2009

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is partially supported by KOSEF (Basic Research Program No. R01-2007-000-20281-0). We acknowledge Mr. S. Degroote and Mr. W. van de Graaf of IMEC for preparation of the GaAs layers and Dr. Ashwin A. Tulapurkar for valuable discussions.

Keywords

Brillouin light scattering
GaAs reconstruction
Magnetic anisotropy
Spin waves

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Ha, S. S., Kim, N. H., You, C. Y., Lee, S., Ohta, K., Maruyama, T., Konishi, K., Nozaki, T., Suzuki, Y., & Van Roy, W. (2009). Brillouin light scattering study of the magnetic anisotropy in bcc-Fe(100) ultrathin films grown on GaAs(100) surfaces with different reconstructions. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 45(6), 2527-2530. Article 4957701. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2009.2018659

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Brillouin light scattering study of the magnetic anisotropy in bcc-Fe(100) ultrathin films grown on GaAs(100) surfaces with different reconstructions

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