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                    Phys. Rev. B 52, 10194–10201 (1995)

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Magnetic anisotropies in body-centered-cubic cobalt films

     S. Subramanian, X. Liu, R. L. Stamps, and R. Sooryakumar
     Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

     G. A. Prinz
     Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375

Received 7 March 1995

The origin of magnetic anisotropies in thin bcc cobalt films is
investigated using Brillouin light scattering. The in-plane directional and
wave-vector dependence of surface and bulk magnon frequencies in (110) and
(001) oriented films indicate a twofold anisotropy in these cubic
ferromagnets with the easy axis of magnetization lying in plane along [001]
and [100], respectively. Using elastic constants determined from phonon
dispersion measurements, we argue that the observed uniaxial anisotropy can
be largely accounted for by magnetoelastic interactions driven by lattice
mismatch at the film/substrate interface. The easy axis is also evident by
the transformation of the surface spin wave into the n=0 bulk magnon when
the magnon wave vector lies parallel to the spontaneous (easy) axis of
magnetization.

©1995 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v52/p10194
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.52.10194
PACS: 62.20.Dc, 78.35.+c, 75.30.Ds
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