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Different Temperature Dependencies of Magnetic Interface and Volume Anisotropies in Gd / W(110)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

M. Farle ,
B. Schulz ,
A. Aspelmeier ,
G. Andre  and
K. Baberschke
M. Farle
Affiliation:
Institut für Experimentalphysik, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
B. Schulz
Affiliation:
Institut für Experimentalphysik, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
A. Aspelmeier
Affiliation:
Institut für Experimentalphysik, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
G. Andre
Affiliation:
Institut für Experimentalphysik, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
K. Baberschke
Affiliation:
Institut für Experimentalphysik, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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Abstract

The magnetic anisotropy of epitaxial Gd(0001) films on W(110) is determined as a function of temperature (150 to 350 K) and film thickness (9 to 30 monolayers) by in situ ferromagnetic resonance. It is found that the usual analysis in terms of a thickness independent part KV and a thickness dependent contribution 2KS/d must be performed at the same reduced temperature t = T/Tc(d). Kv shows qualitatively the same temperature dependence as the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of bulk Gd. It changes in sign near 0.7 Tc and does not vanish at Tc. KS on the other hand decreases linearly from 1.2 meV/atom at 0.6.Tc to zero at Tc. It appears that the intrinsic origin for Kv and KS is fundamentally different. The vanishing of KS at Tc indicates that two-ion anisotropy (spin-spin interaction) is dominating the interface anisotropy. The non- zero KV(T≥Tc) is likely due to a single ion magnetic anisotropy which is known for bulk Gd.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 384: Symposium L – Magnetic Ultrathin films, Multilayers and Surfaces , 1995 , 215
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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