Suppression of the magnetocrystalline bulk anisotropy in thin epitaxial Co(110) films on Cu(110)

  • We report on an unexpected suppression of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy contribution in epitaxial fcc Co(110) films on Cu(110) below a thickness of dc=(50 +/- 10) Å. For film thicknesses larger than dc the measured anisotropy value agrees with published data. Measurements on films with reduced strain indicate a large strain dependence of dc . A model calculation based on a crystal-field formalism and discussed within the context of band theory, which explicitly takes tetragonal misfit strains into account, reproduces the experimen-tally observed anomalies. Our results indicate that the usually applied phenomenological description of anisotropies, assuming additive free energy terms for each anisotropy contribution, fails in this case.

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Author:Burkard Hillebrands, Jürgen Fassbender, Jungblut R.M., Güntherodt G., Roberts D.J., Gehring G.A.
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-9410
Document Type:Preprint
Language of publication:English
Year of Completion:1996
Year of first Publication:1996
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2000/02/14
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Physik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011