Growth-induced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in Co/Cu(100)

H. W. Zhao; Y. Z. Wu; C. Won; Z. Q. Qiu

doi:10.1063/1.1687611

Growth-induced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in Co/Cu(100)

H. W. Zhao, Y. Z. Wu, C. Won, Z. Q. Qiu

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Abstract

The surface magneto-optic kerr effect and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) were used to investigate the growth-induced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy of Co/Cu(100) films. It was found that an in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy with the easy magnetization axis was shown by the Co films. STM measurements show that smaller island without anisotropic roughness existed in the low temperature grown Co films. It was concluded that the dipolar interaction does not dominate the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy and that the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy originates from the magnetocrystalline step anisotropy of the Co film surface.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7300-7302
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	95
Issue number	11 II
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1687611
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2004

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