Strain-modulated antiferromagnetic spin orientation and exchange coupling in Fe/CoO(001)

J. Zhu; Q. Li; J. X. Li; Z. Ding; C. Y. Hua; M. J. Huang; H. J. Lin; Z. Hu; C. Won; Y. Z. Wu

doi:10.1063/1.4876907

Strain-modulated antiferromagnetic spin orientation and exchange coupling in Fe/CoO(001)

J. Zhu, Q. Li, J. X. Li, Z. Ding, C. Y. Hua, M. J. Huang, H. J. Lin, Z. Hu, C. Won, Y. Z. Wu

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The effect of CoO spin orientation on exchange coupling was investigated in single-crystalline Fe/CoO/MnO/MgO(001) systems. An antiferromagnetic CoO spin reorientation transition from the in-plane direction to the out-of-plane direction was found to be associated with the in-plane strain transition in CoO film from compression to expansion. The induced uniaxial anisotropies by exchange coupling at the Fe/CoO interface are significantly stronger for the in-plane CoO spin orientation than for the out-of-plane CoO spin orientation. Our study provides a way to modify the exchange coupling in the ferromagnetic (FM)/antiferromagnetic (AFM) bilayer by modulating the strain in the AFM film.

Original language	English
Article number	193903
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	115
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4876907
Publication status	Published - 21 May 2014

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Strain-modulated antiferromagnetic spin orientation and exchange coupling in Fe/CoO(001)

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