Vol Page/Article: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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> ] Physical Review Letters -- December 4, 2000 -- Volume 85, Issue 23, pp. 4964-4967 Full Text: [ PDF (561 kB) GZipped PS Order Document ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quantification of Magnetic Domain Disorder and Correlations in Antiferromagnetically Coupled Multilayers by Neutron Reflectometry Sean Langridge and Jörg 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 (Received 20 May 1999) The in-plane correlation lengths and angular dispersion of magnetic domains in a transition metal multilayer have been studied using off-specular neutron reflectometry techniques. A theoretical framework considering both structural and magnetic disorder has been developed, quantitatively connecting the observed scattering to the in-plane correlation length and the dispersion of the local magnetization vector about the mean macroscopic direction. The antiferromagnetic domain structure is highly vertically correlated throughout the multilayer. We are easily able to relate the neutron determined magnetic domain dispersion to magnetization and magnetoresistance experiments. ©2000 The American Physical Society URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v85/p4964 PACS: 75.70.Cn, 75.25.+z, 75.70.Pa Additional Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full Text: [ PDF (561 kB) GZipped PS Order Document ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 . # M. N. Baibach et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2472 (1988) . # S. S. P. Parkin, N. More, and K. P. Roche, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2304 (1990) ; S. S. P. Parkin, R. Bhadra, and K. P. Roche, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 2152 (1991) . # P. Zahn et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4309 (1998) . # H. 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