Title: Off-specular polarized neutron scattering from magnetic fluctuations in thin films and multilayers

Author(s): Toperverg BP

Source: APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING 74: S1560-S1562 Part 2 Suppl. S, DEC 2002

Document Type: Article

Language: English

Abstract: Polarized neutron off-specular scattering from magnetic fluctuations (magnetic domains, roughnesses, and dynamical spin correlations) in thin films and multilayers is theoretically considered within the super-matrix approach of the distorted wave Born approximation. General equations relating the scattering cross section with the pair spin correlation function, the correlator of the nuclear scattering potential fluctuations, and the magnetic-nuclear cross correlator are derived and brought into a form easy for applications.

KeyWords Plus: REFLECTIVITY; DIFFRACTION; FERROFLUID

Addresses: Toperverg BP (reprint author), Forschungszentrum Julich, IFF, Julich, D-52425 Germany
Forschungszentrum Julich, IFF, Julich, D-52425 Germany
Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, 188350 Russia

Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG, 175 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10010 USA

Subject Category: MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY; PHYSICS, APPLIED

IDS Number: 649QN

ISSN: 0947-8396