The variation of anisotropy and magnetization orientation with temperature in Tb/Fe multilayers

Y. J. Wang, C. P. Luo, W. Kleemann, Bernhard Scholz, R. A. Brand, W. Keune

Journal of Applied Physics · 1993 · 12 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

On the basis of the co-effect of the crystal field with a random distribution and the molecular field and using anisotropic static magnetic couplings, we calculated the polar angle Θ of the magnetic moment in 15×(26 Å Tb/40 Å Fe)+40 Å Fe multilayers as function of temperature from 4.2 to 300 K, which agrees well with experiment. As a result of the calculation, the width of interface mixing layer and the coefficient of the crystal field are determined.

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