Journal of Applied Physics AIP's archival journal for significant new results in applied physics. [JAP Home ] [All Online Issues: Browse | Search ] [Article Purchases ] [SPIN Database: Browse | Search ] [Forthcoming Abstracts ] [HELP ] [EXIT ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Article Collection: View Collection | Help (Click on the COLLECT ARTICLE to add an article.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ Previous / Next Abstract | Issue Table of Contents | Bottom of Page <#bottom> ] Journal of Applied Physics -- May 1, 2000 -- Volume 87, Issue 9, pp. 5750-5752 Full Text: [ HTML Sectioned HTML PDF (219 kB) GZipped PS ] Order ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A neutron study of magnetic domain correlations in antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers S. Langridge and J. Schmalian Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom C. H. Marrows, D. T. Dekadjevi, and B. J. Hickey Department of Physics and Astronomy, E. C. Stoner Laboratory, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom The observed magnetotransport properties of magnetically coupled multilayers depends not only on the nature of the magnetic coupling but also the magnetic domain correlations and disorder. Neutron scattering gives access to the magnetic coupling through the specular reflectivity and the domain correlations through the diffuse scattering. Sputtered multilayers of Co/Cu and Co/Ru have been investigated as a function of the applied magnetic field. A simple domain model relates the observed scattering to the domain correlation length and the magnetic disorder. In both systems highly vertically correlated magnetic domains are observed with in-plane correlation lengths, at remanence, of 1.5 and 7 µm for the Cu and Ru systems, respectively. In both systems the Co domains order antiferromagnetically across the nonmagnetic spacer. The remanent vertically correlated state is recovered after saturating the sample. ©2000 American Institute of Physics. PII: S0021-8979(00)45008-5 doi: 10.1063/1.372510 PACS: 75.70.Cn, 75.50.Ee, 75.25.+z, 75.60.Ch, 75.70.Kw, 75.60.Ej, 75.70.Pa Additional Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full Text: [ HTML Sectioned HTML PDF (219 kB) GZipped PS ] Order ------------------------------------------------------------------------ References Citation links [e.g., Phys. Rev. D 40, 2172 (1989)] go to online journal abstracts. Other links (see Reference Information ) are available with your current login. Navigation of links may be more efficient using a second browser window . 1. M. N. Baibich, J. M. Broto, A. Fert, F. N. Vandau, F. Petroff, P. Eitenne, G. Creuzet, A. Friederich, and J. Chazelas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2472 (1988) . [MEDLINE] 2. G. P. Felcher, R. O. Hilleke, R. K. Crawford, J. Haumann, R. Kleb, and G. Ostrowski, Rev. Sci. 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