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Online ISSN: 1521-396X Print ISSN: 0031-8965
physica status solidi (a)
Volume 189, Issue 2, 2002. Pages: 591-598

Published Online: 28 Feb 2002

Original Paper

Specular and Off-Specular Synchrotron Mössbauer Reflectometry: Applications to Thin Film Magnetism

D.L. Nagy¹, L. Bottyán¹, L. Deák¹, B. Degroote², O. Leupold³, M. Major¹, J. Meersschaut², R. Rüffer³, E. Szilágyi¹, J. Swerts⁴, K. Temst⁴, A. Vantomme²

¹KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, P.O.B. 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
²K.U. Leuven, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
³European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, BP 220, F-38043 Grenoble, France
⁴K.U. Leuven, Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

email: D.L. Nagy (nagy@rmki.kfki.hu)

Keywords
75.25.+z; 75.30.Gw; 75.70.-i; 76.80.+y; S1.1; S1.2

Abstract
Synchrotron Mössbauer Reflectometry (SMR) is a novel tool for studying the magnetic structure of multilayers. The orientation of the layer magnetisation in an antiferromagnetically coupled multilayer is determined from the intensity of the pure nuclear reflection in specular time-integral SMR experiments. The value of the saturation field is estimated with high accuracy. The bulk spin-flop transition in an Fe/Cr superlattice of fourfold in-plane magnetocrystalline anisotropy is demonstrated. The width of the off-specular (diffuse) scattering peak is a measure of the in-plane antiferromagnetic domain size. The domain correlation length of 2.6 m measured in remanence on the Fe/Cr superlattice following magnetic saturation is in good agreement with semi-empirical model calculations.

Received: 1 May 2001; Accepted: 30 September 2001

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10.1002/1521-396X(200202)189:2<591::AID-PSSA591>3.0.CO;2-8 About DOI

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