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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2007

Exchange-induced frustration in Fe/NiO multilayers

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Using spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy to study magnetization in epitaxial layered systems, we found that the area vs perimeter relationship of magnetic domains in the top Fe layers of Fe/NiO/Fe(100) structures follows a power-law distribution, with very small magnetic domain cutoff radius (about 40 nm) and domain wall thickness. This unusual magnetic microstructure can be understood as resulting from the competition between antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic exchange interactions at the Fe/NiO interfaces, rather than from mechanisms involving the anisotropy and dipolar forces that govern length scales in conventional magnetic domain structures. Statistical analysis of our measurements validates a micromagnetic model that accounts for this interfacial exchange coupling.

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hal-00203051 , version 1 (08-01-2008)

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Nicolas Rougemaille, Marco Portalupi, A. Brambilla, Paulo Biagioni, Alessandra Lanzara, et al.. Exchange-induced frustration in Fe/NiO multilayers. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2007, 76 (21), pp.214425. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.76.214425⟩. ⟨hal-00203051⟩

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