Wiley InterScience Home Page Personal Home Page Journal Finder Book Finder Search Wiley Interscience Reference Works Help Contact Us Logout Article Abstract All Journals Previous Article Next Article acronym finder About this Journal 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 © 2002 WILEY-VCH Verlag Berlin GmbH, Fed. Rep. of Germany Add to your Hot Article list Enhanced Abstract Available Article's Full Text in PDF No HTML Full Text Available ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Original Paper Specular and Off-Specular Synchrotron Mössbauer Reflectometry: Applications to Thin Film Magnetism D.L. Nagy 1, L. Bottyán 1, L. Deák 1, B. Degroote 2, O. Leupold 3, M. Major 1, J. Meersschaut 2, R. Rüffer 3, E. Szilágyi 1, J. Swerts 4, K. Temst 4, A. Vantomme 2 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 Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1002/1521-396X(200202)189:2<591::AID-PSSA591>3.0.CO;2-8 About DOI References are available in the Enhanced Abstract Additional Information * Find other articles like this in Wiley InterScience. * Find articles in Wiley InterScience written by any of the authors . * Find other links for this article. [Wiley InterScience Home Page] [Personal Home Page] [Journal Finder] [Book Finder] [Search Wiley InterScience] [Reference Works] [Help] [Contact Us] [Logout] Wiley InterScience is a member of CrossRef CrossRef ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright © 1999-2003 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.