NiFe/FeMn双层膜交换偏置的形成及热稳定性研究

研究了在铁磁(NiFe)/反铁磁(FeMn)双层膜之间，交换偏置的形成过程和热稳定性，特别是NiFe/FeMn的交换偏置作用与FeMn层晶粒尺寸的关系.和以前作者不同的是，本文方法采用非磁性Ni-Fe-Cr合金作缓冲层材料，改变Cr的含量就可以获得不同晶粒尺寸的反铁磁FeMn层.实验表明，晶粒尺寸较小的FeMn产生较强的铁磁/反铁磁交换偏置场；但是，对于较大晶粒的FeMn层，出现交换偏置作用所要的临界厚度较小.这符合Mauri提出的理论模型.交换偏置场的热稳定性实验表明，具有较大晶粒尺寸的FeMn层给出较 关键词： 交换偏置 热稳定性 反铁磁 晶粒尺寸     

铁磁/反铁磁/铁磁三层膜系统中反铁磁自旋结构及其交换各向异性

研究铁磁/反铁磁/铁磁三层膜中界面存在二次以及双二次交换耦合下反铁磁磁矩转动及其交换各向异性.结果表明,其反铁磁膜中的磁矩转动存在可逆"恢复行为"、不可逆"连续倒转行为"以及不可逆"中断倒转行为"三种情形,三种情形的出现强烈地依赖于两界面处的线性耦合和双二次耦合.钉扎界面的交换耦合与旋转界面的交换耦合相互竞争,当钉扎界面耦合占主导时,反铁磁磁矩发生可逆"恢复行为",系统出现交换偏置.在旋转界面耦合占主导情形下,其线性耦合与双二次耦合也相互竞争,分别导致反铁磁磁矩发生不可逆"连续倒转行为"和不可逆"中断倒转行为",系统都不出现交换偏置,但矫顽场都得以增强.相关结论为实验上观测的磁滞能耗以及界面垂直耦合提供了可能的解释.     

交换偏置双层膜中的反铁磁自旋结构及其交换各向异性

研究了交换偏置双层膜中界面存在二次以及双二次交换耦合下反铁磁磁矩转动及其交换各向异性.结果表明，其反铁磁膜中的磁矩转动存在可逆“恢复行为”、不可逆“半转动行为”、不可逆“倒转行为”以及不可逆“半倒转行为”四种情形，四种情形的出现强烈地依赖于界面二次、双二次耦合以及反铁磁膜厚度.其中可逆恢复行为情况下，系统出现交换偏置，而不可逆的半转、半倒转以及倒转情形，系统不出现交换偏置.特别地,在界面处仅存在双二次耦合的情形下，其界面双二次耦合常数J₂≤0.1 σ关键词： 反铁磁自旋结构 交换各向异性 界面双二次耦合 交换偏置     

具有分隔层Bi的反铁磁/铁磁双层薄膜间的短程交换耦合

用磁控溅射方法制备了NiFeⅠFeMnBiNiFeⅡ薄膜,研究了反铁磁薄膜FeMn与铁磁薄膜NiFeⅠ及NiFeⅡ间的交换偏置场Hex相对于分隔层Bi厚度的变化.发现随分隔层Bi厚度的增加,FeMn与NiFeⅠ间的交换偏置场Hex1几乎不变,FeMn与NiFeⅡ间的交换偏置场Hex2急剧减小.当Bi的厚度超过06nm时,FeMn与NiFeⅡ之间的交换偏置场从6925下降为0876kA·m-1.x射线光电子能谱(XPS)分析表明,沉积在FeMnNiFeⅡ界面的Bi并没有全部停留在界面处,至少有部分偏聚到Ni 关键词： 交换偏置 分隔层 织构 XPS     

反铁磁耦合硬磁-软磁-硬磁三层膜体系的不可逆交换弹性反磁化过程

采用一维原子链模型研究了反铁磁耦合的硬磁/软磁/硬磁三层膜体系的反磁化过程. 研究结果表明,当考虑了软磁层的磁晶各向异性能后,软磁层厚度和界面交换耦合强度的改变都有可能导致软磁层的交换弹性反磁化过程由可逆过程转变为不可逆过程. 对软磁层很薄的体系,其反磁化过程是典型的可逆交换弹性反磁化过程. 然而,当软磁层厚度超过某一临界厚度t_c时,反磁化过程转变为不可逆的交换弹性反磁化过程. 软磁-硬磁界面交换耦合强度A_sh对反磁化行为也有很大的影响. 对于软磁层厚度小于临界厚度t_c的体系,也存在一个临界界面交换耦合强度A_sh^c. 当A_sh大于A_sh^c时,软磁层的反磁化过程是可逆的交换弹性反磁化过程;而当A_sh小于A_sh^c时,这一过程变为不可逆. 给出了体系的可逆与不可逆交换弹性反磁化过程随软磁层厚度和界面交换耦合强度变化的磁相图. 同时还研究了偏转场随软磁层厚度的变化关系. 关键词： 反铁磁耦合三层膜 交换弹性反磁化过程 反磁化机理 磁相图     

Ta,Ta/Cu缓冲层对NiFe/Fe Mn双层膜交换偏置场的影响

采用磁控溅射方法制备了分别以Ta和Ta/Cu作为缓冲层的一系列NiFe/FeMn双层膜.实验发现,以Ta为缓冲层的NiFe/FeMn双层膜的交换偏置场比以Ta/Cu为缓冲层的NiFe/FeMn双层膜的交换偏置场大.测量了这两种双层膜的织构、表面粗糙度和表面成分.结果表明,以Ta/Cu为缓冲层时,Cu在NiFe层的上表面偏聚是造成NiFe/FeMn双层膜交换偏置场降低的重要原因. 关键词： NiFe/FeMn 交换偏置场 织构 表面粗糙度     

两步法制备的自旋阀巨磁电阻效应研究

采用新的磁控溅射两步法沉积自旋阀多层膜,不仅交换耦合作用大大增强,而且可以提高磁电阻比值和降低层间耦合作用.得到磁电阻比值～26%,交换耦合场～28kA/m,层间耦合场～01kA/m.自旋阀的下部(缓冲层(Ta)/自由层(NiFe)/中间隔离层(Cu))在低氩气压下沉积、上部(被钉扎层(NiFe)/反铁磁钉扎层(FeMn)/覆盖层(Ta))则在高氩气压下沉积.前者保证了自旋阀具有强(111)晶体织构,平整的NiFe/Cu界面和致密的Cu层,抑制了层间耦合作用;后者则促进小尺寸磁畴生长和增加NiFe/FeM 关键词：     

铁磁/反铁磁双层膜系统中的磁畴动力学行为

比较了铁磁单层膜与铁磁/反铁磁双层膜结构中的磁畴演化行为, 发现由于反铁磁层膜对铁磁层膜的耦合作用使得系统的磁畴壁厚度、 磁畴壁等效质量、磁畴壁移动速度等发生了改变, 系统的矫顽场增强, 并出现了交换偏置场. 文章具体研究了反铁磁层耦合作用下其磁畴壁厚度、 等效质量以及磁畴壁移动速度等与反铁磁层的净磁化、 磁各向异性、界面耦合强度以及温度等的关系; 并研究了其对铁磁/反铁磁双层膜中的交换偏置场、矫顽场的影响. 进而 从磁畴结构的形成及其演化上揭示了铁磁/反铁磁双 层膜中出现交换偏置以及矫顽场增加的物理机制.     

铁磁共振法测磁各向异性

采用铁磁共振方法,研究了铁磁/反铁磁双层膜系统中,因交换耦合以及磁晶各向异性而产生的有效各向异性场.结果表明:被测系统有无交换偏置场以及其正负号性质等均能在共振谱中得到辨析.结果还显示:沿着不同结晶方向施加外磁场,共振场的行为与磁晶各向异性以及铁磁/反铁磁交换耦合作用而诱发的单向各向异性等密切相关.将共振频率的变化看成外磁场(包括其方向和大小)的函数,研究得到了单向各向异性,立方各向异性等对共振频率的影响,并同实验结果做了很好的比较. 关键词： 铁磁/反铁磁双层膜 交换耦合 铁磁共振 单向各向异性     

热效应在电流驱动反铁磁/铁磁交换偏置场翻转中的显著作用

电流驱动的面内交换偏置场翻转具有无需外磁场辅助、抗磁场干扰以及强磁各向异性等优势,受到广泛关注.然而,在纳米级厚度薄膜系统中,反铁磁/铁磁异质结的阻塞温度较低,同时电流脉冲会产生大量的焦耳热,理论上电流热效应对于交换偏置场翻转有着显著作用,但是其作用机制缺乏相关研究和验证.我们制备了一系列反铁磁IrMn厚度不同的Pt/IrMn/Py异质结,系统性地研究了热效应在电流翻转交换偏置场中的作用机制.结果表明,在毫秒级电流脉冲下,焦耳热能够使得器件升温至阻塞温度以上,解除反铁磁/铁磁界面的交换耦合,同时电流产生的奥斯特场和自旋轨道矩能够翻转铁磁磁矩,在降温过程中完成交换偏置场的翻转.并且,在翻转过程中,反铁磁/铁磁异质结的各向异性磁阻曲线呈现与温度相关的两步磁化翻转现象,分析表明该现象起源于交换偏置耦合与铁磁直接交换作用之间的竞争关系.本文的研究结果厘清了热效应在电流驱动交换偏置场翻转过程中的重要作用,有助于推动基于电控交换偏置场的自旋电子器件发展.     

Influence of ferromagnetic thickness on dynamic anisotropy in exchange-biased MnIr/FeCo multilayered thin films

A comprehensive study of the influence of ferromagnetic thickness on the static and dynamic magnetic properties in exchange-biased FeCo/MnIr multilayers for both strong and weak exchange-bias coupling cases is presented. The results demonstrate that static and dynamic magnetic anisotropy fields decrease with ferromagnetic thickness in both cases. The rising of rotational anisotropy is discussed in conjunction with the enhanced coercivity and exchange bias by taking into account the roles of the rotatable and frozen antiferromagnetic spins in each of the two cases. Due to the contributions of the exchange bias and rotational anisotropy, the resonance frequency can be tailored up to 10 GHz. In addition, the behaviors of the frequency linewidth and the effective damping factor are discussed and ascribed to the dispersion of magnetic anisotropy.     

Extracting uniaxial anisotropy of ferromagnetic layer in exchange-biased system

Effective anisotropy of the ferromagnetic pinned layer of ferro(FM)-antiferromagnetic (AF)-coupled NiFe(FM)/FeMn(AF) exchange-biased system was investigated in a broad frequency range (100 MHz-5 GHz) using a complex permeability spectrum. The exchange bias and effective uniaxial anisotropy fields of the thin film have been computed theoretically using the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. From the measurements, uniaxial anisotropy of the pinned FM layer has been extracted to understand the nature of the exchange bias in the system. It is found that the uniaxial anisotropy field of NiFe layer when exchange biased with the AF layer increases from 5 to 15 Oe at different external magnetic fields.     

Field dependent specific heat and longitudinal magnetization of the quantum magnet layer Cs2CuCl4: Anisotropy effects

We have addressed the specific heat and magnetization of an anisotropic spin-1/2 triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cs₂CuCl₄ in the presence of magnetic field at finite temperature. We have investigated the behavior of thermodynamic properties by means of excitation spectrum in terms of a hard core bosonic representation. The effect of in-plane anisotropy on thermodynamic properties has also been studied via the bosonic model by Green’s function approach. This anisotropy is considered for exchange constants that couple spin components perpendicular to magnetic field direction. We have found the temperature dependence of the specific heat and longitudinal magnetization in the gapped field induced spin-polarized phase for various magnetic fields and anisotropy parameters. Furthermore we have studied the magnetic field dependence of specific heat and magnetization for various anisotropy parameters. Our results show temperature dependence of specific heat includes a peak so that its temperature position goes to higher temperature with increase of magnetic field. We have found the magnetic field dependence of specific heat shows a monotonic decreasing behavior for various magnetic fields due to increase of energy gap in the excitation spectrum.     

Ferromagnetic glass on the base of aggregates of Ni amorphous nanogranules

We have studied theoretically (including computer simulations) magnetic properties of aggregates of ferromagnetic amorphous nanogranules in the presence of direct exchange between the neighboring granules and random anisotropy fields. We show that such a system can be considered as ferromagnetic glass. We demonstrate (basing on analytical considerations as well as on the results of numerical simulations) that the system is decomposed to clusters or domains with nearly collinear orientation of magnetization. The size of the domains depends on the ratio of the exchange interaction and random anisotropy. For quasi-2D structures we predict that the dipole-dipole interactions between the granules lead to a formation of magnetic vortices. Moreover, the computer simulations also reproduce the puzzling increase of the thermoremanent magnetization observed experimentally, which is expected to be a result of a temperature-dependent decrease in the anisotropy (or a temperature-dependent increase in the exchange). We also consider the structures with weak intergranular exchange and show that they are characterized by the presence of two critical temperatures.     

Magnetic hyperfine splitting in mössbauer spectra of microcrystals

Below the superparamagnetic blocking temperature of a microcrystal the magnetization direction is in general not fixed, but fluctuates in directions close to an easy direction of magnetization. Such fluctuations (collective magnetic excitations) result in a reduction in the magnetic splitting of the Mössbauer spectrum. A low-temperature approximation for this reduction is derived for microcrystals with arbitrary magnetic energy. Moreover, explicit expressions are presented for particles with special types of magnetic anisotropy and for particles exposed to external magnetic fields. The reduction in the magnetic hyperfine field has its maximum value just below the blocking temperature but does not exceed 5–15% in isolated particles with uniaxial anisotropy in zero applied magnetic field. However, ferro- and ferrimagnetic particles, exposed to external magnetic fields, and particles for which exchange anisotropy is predominant, may exhibit any magnetic hyperfine splitting between zero and the saturation value. It is shown that in special cases an assembly of microcrystals in close contact with each other may behave like a spin-glass. We discuss how studies of the magnetic hyperfine splitting ofMössbauer spectra of microcrystals give information of the particle size and the prevailing magnetic anisotropies.     

Spin-glass-like distribution of interaction fields in a nearly ferromagnetic Ni-Cu alloy

The magnetic specific heat (C_m) of a Ni-Cu alloy of 40 at% Ni was determined from low-temperature heat capacity measurements in various magnetic fields and is shown to derive from a dilute concentration of giant-moment clusters, consistent with previous magnetization measurements. From the field and temperature dependences of C_m, it is also deduced that the distribution of interaction (exchange and anisotropy) fields experienced by the clusters extends continuously from large positive fields to large negative fields, relative to the applied field.     

High-field magnetoresistance of noble metals containing rare-earth impurities

We report on magnetoresistance measurements in longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields up to 320 kG for silver and gold containing rare-earth impurities. We focus mainly on the strong anisotropy of the magnetoresistance related to the scattering of conduction electrons by the 4f quadrupoles (non-S ions) and we derive the magnitude of the electron-quadrupole interaction from the analysis of the results. We also consider the isotropic contribution to the magnetoresistance due to exchange scattering. In a number of alloys this contribution is negative in low fields, as this is usually observed in magnetic alloys, but becomes positive in high fields. This change of spin can be ascribed to crystal-field effects.     

Magnetization curve and magnetic correlations in a nanochain of ferromagnetic grains with random anisotropy

The magnetization curve and magnetization correlation function are calculated for a ferromagnetic chain of single-domain nanoparticles with a randomly oriented anisotropy axis for different ratios between the exchange correlation and anisotropy energies. It is shown that the coercive force decreases as the exchange correlations increase. For strong exchange correlations, the magnetization curve is described by the following three successive magnetization processes as the applied field is increased: (i) nonuniform rotation of the magnetization of stochastic domains, (ii) collapse of the magnetic solitons, and (iii) nonuniform rotation of exchange-correlated magnetization vectors of the nanoparticles. For high fields, the calculated correlation function of the transverse magnetization components coincides with that predicted from linear theory. At low and zero fields, the main parameters of the correlation function (the variance and correlation radius) tend to certain finite values rather than diverge (as is the case in linear theory). The irreversible variation in the magnetization at low fields (the hysteresis loop) and the hysteresis of the main parameters of the correlation function are calculated.     

Surface modes with biquadratic coupling and uniaxial anisotropy in semi-infinite Heisenberg antiferromagnet

We address the role and the influence of both biquadratic exchange and uniaxial anisotropy in the study of bulk and surface magnetic excitations for a two-sublattices semi-infinite Heisenberg antiferromagnet. The calculations apply to combined effect and are based on a matching technique within the framework of both non-interacting spin-wave theory and random phase approximation. Emphasis has been laid upon the advantage of handling bulk and surface spin precessional fields, characterized by their symmetry in particular. Analytic expressions for the bulk and surface equations of motion are also derived which enables us to analyze qualitatively the nature of the modes by observing the response of the energy branches to the variation of both biquadratic exchange and single-ion anisotropy field as well as exchange parameters occurring on the surface. Two numerical applications of the theoretical formalism developed in this work are described. First concerns the situation when the free surface model is assumed. The second application considers the existence of surface perturbations and treats the effects of the presence of biquadratic exchange term on the bulk and surface spin-wave spectra showing two kinds of surface propagating modes which depend on the presence or not of the uniaxial anisotropy contribution and also on the variations of the bulk-surface exchange parameters. A significant conclusion which this work reached relates to the checking of the results obtained in the literature by using our own theoretical formalism. We show that this formalism is very well adapted to calculations of localized bulk and surface spin-wave modes associated with the simultaneous presence of biquadratic exchange and uniaxial anisotropy. Also, the results obtained for the bulk spin fluctuations field as well as for the magnetic surface waves, are found to be in qualitative agreement with those obtained in the literature. The analytic formulation presented in this work provides an accurate and practical scheme for calculating the surface spin dynamics under the influence of surface exchange parameters, biquadratic coupling and uniaxial anisotropy terms.     

Antiferromagnetic TiFe2 in applied fields: experiment and simulation

Mössbauer spectra of a powdered TiFe₂ sample were measured under different applied fields and the results were compared to simulated spectra obtained by minimizing the total energy of a two-sublattice antiferromagnet. In order to reproduce experimental results a highly textured distribution had to be assumed, the local anisotropy axis lying mostly perpendicular to the applied field. Thus, magnetic alignment of AF grains by an external field was demonstrated. In addition, exchange and anisotropy fields for TiFe₂ at T?～?0 K have been determined.