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Magnetic surface anisotropies in NiFe-alloy films: separation of intrinsic Néel-type from strain relaxation contributions

Ulrich GradmannHans-joachim Elmers

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PermalloyRange (particle radiation)Materials scienceStrain (chemistry)Condensed matter physicsPlane (geometry)Relaxation (NMR)Alloyengineering.materialCondensed Matter PhysicsElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsPerpendicularengineeringAnisotropy

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Abstract Magnetic surface anisotropies (MSA) in NiFe/Cu(1 1 1) films were investigated experimentally, for varying compositions of the NiFe alloy. By restricting the measurements to the pseudomorphic range, the pure intrinsic Neel-type anisotropy could be isolated without strain relaxation contributions. The intrinsic MSA of the xNi(1−x)Fe/Cu(1 1 1) interface varies linearly with composition x between easy plane for pure Ni to perpendicular for x=60 and 48%. It vanishes near the permalloy composition x=80%.

https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-8853(99)00549-1