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The giant magnetoresistance (GMR) was investigated for electrodeposited Co/Cu multilayers. In order to better understand the formation of individual layers and their influence on GMR, multilayers produced by two different deposition…
We present a systematic first-principles study of the electronic surface states and resonances occuring in thin films of Pd of various thicknesses deposited on a single ferromagnetic monolayer of Fe on top of Ir(111) substrate. This system…
The effect of the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction on the magnetic structure of an ordered FePt monolayer deposited on Pt (111) surface has been investigated. In the ground state, the pronounced anisotropic geometry of the FePt layer with…
Interfaces govern the unique mechanical response of amorphous multilayers. Here, we examine nanoindentation hardness and deformation behaviour of amorphous-amorphous Ta$_2$O$_5$/SiO$_2$ nanolaminates with bilayer thicknesses ranging from 2…
Materials with strong spin orbit coupling (SOC) are essential for realizing spin orbit torque (SOT) based magnetic memory devices. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising candidates for such appli cations because of their…
The magnetic properties of thin-film multilayers [Fe/Py]/FeMn/Py are investigated as a function of temperature and thickness of the antiferromagnetic FeMn spacer using SQUID magnetometry. The observed behavior differs substantially for the…
Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) in interlayer exchange coupled (IEC) Pt/Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$(1.12 nm)/Ru/Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$(1.12 nm) systems have been studied theoretically and experimentally. Vibrating…
A low concentration of cobalt clusters with a fcc structure and containing almost one thousand atoms are embedded in two different metallic matrices: platinum and niobium. Samples have been prepared using a co-deposition technique. Cobalt…
We experimentally demonstrate the formation of room-temperature skyrmions with radii of about 25\,nm in easy-plane anisotropy multilayers with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We detect the formation of individual…
Perpendicular exchange bias has been manipulated by changing ferromagnetic film thickness and spacer layer in Pt/Co/(Pt, Cr)/CoO thin films. The exchange bias characteristics, blocking temperature, magnetization of thin films strongly…
Fe/Si multilayers with antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling have been grown via ion-beam sputtering on both glass and single-crystal substrates. High-angle x-ray diffraction measurements show that both sets of films have narrow Fe peaks,…
Growth optimization of multilayers is a topic of interest due to their unique physical properties. Systems containing magnetic materials, such as platinum-cobalt, have been studied because of their potential for technological applications,…
A novel approach to tune the ferromagnetic resonance frequency of a soft magnetic Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$ (Permalloy = Py) film with in-plane magnetic anisotropy (IMA) based on the controlled coupling to a hard magnetic NdCo$_\text{x}$ film with…
Co80Ir20 ferromagnetic thin films have recently been the focus of intensive research because the negative magnetocrystalline anisotropy adds to the shape anisotropy and favors a strong alignment of the magnetization in the film plane for…
The interface properties of interest in multilayers include interfacial charge densities, dipole densities, band offsets, and screening-lengths, among others. Most such properties are inaccesible to direct measurements, but are key to…
By Monte Carlo simulations in the canonical ensemble, we have studied the magnetic anisotropy in Fe/Dy amorphous multilayers. This work has been motivated by experimental results which show a clear correlation between the magnetic…
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