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We consider the spin reorientation transition in a ferromagnetic Heisenberg monolayer with a second order single ion anisotropy as a function of temperature and external field. Up to now analytical methods give satisfying results only for…
Antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe is a promising material for spintronic devices relying on the control of antiferromagnetic domain orientations. Here we report on neutron diffraction, magnetotransport, and magnetometry experiments on…
Exchange anisotropy in ferromagnet/antiferromagnet (FM/AF) films is usually introduced along the cooling field or FM magnetization direction. Here we investigate the dependence of the exchange anisotropy, loop bifurcation, and reversal…
The linear and nonlinear processes in ferromagnetic films at low temperatures T<< Tc are studied in a microscopic theory. Both the long-range magnetic dipole-dipole and the Heisenberg exchange interactions to nearest and next-nearest…
We report the investigation of magnetostrictive property of polycrystalline ZnO film at room temperature on rotating a magnetic field in the plane of the film from 0 deg to 90 deg by an indigenously developed optical cantilever beam…
We analyze the finite temperature phase diagram of ultrathin magnetic films by introducing a mean field theory, valid in the low anisotropy regime, i.e., close to de Spin Reorientation Transition. The theoretical results are compared with…
We report here sign reversal and tunability of exchange bias in AuFe cosputtered films of thickness about 63 nm. As deposited film exhibits exchange bias effect at room temperature without external triggering field and its magnitude…
The spin reorientation transition of an ultrathin film from perpendicular to in-plane magnetization is driven by a competition between dipole and anisotropy energies. \textit{In situ} measurements of the magnetic susceptibility of Fe/2 ML…
We present a new type of temperature driven spin reorientation transition (SRT) in thin films. It can occur when the lattice and the shape anisotropy favor different easy directions of the magnetization. Due to different temperature…
Results are presented for spin-wave dispersions in geometrically frustrated stacked triangular antiferromagnets with a thin film or semi-infinite geometry having either zero, easy-plane, or easy-axis anisotropy. Surface effects on the…
We investigate the thermodynamic behavior of antiferromagnetic films in external magnetic fields oriented perpendicular to the staggered magnetization. Within the systematic effective Lagrangian framework we first calculate the two-point…
The asymmetry of the modal profiles for dipole-exchange spin waves propagating in in-plane magnetized ferromagnetic films at a right angle to the applied magnetic field has been investigated theoretically. It was found that in the…
We show, by SQUID magnetometry, that in (Ga,Mn)As films the in-plane uniaxial magnetic easy axis is consistently associated with particular crystallographic directions and that it can be rotated from the [-110] direction to the [110]…
We describe measurements of the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy and spin-flop rotation of the N\'eel vector in antiferromagnetic CuMnAs thin films using neutron diffraction. The suppression of the magnetic (100) peak under magnetic fields is…
We examine the T=0 phase diagram of a thin ferromagnetic film with a strong out-of-plane anisotropy in the vicinity of the reorientation phase transition (with Co on Pt as an example). The phase diagram in the anisotropy-applied field plane…
If a DC magnetic field is applied parallel to the plane of amorphous CoZr(RE) thin films during sputter depositing, a uniaxial anisotropy is formed the direction of which depends upon the choice of RE substituted and its concentration. When…
In antiferromagnets, dipolar coupling is often disregarded due to the cancellation of magnetic moments between the two sublattices, leaving spin-wave dispersion predominantly determined by exchange interactions. However, antiferromagnetic…
Nanoscale layered ferromagnets have demonstrated fascinating two-dimensional magnetism down to atomic layers, providing a peculiar playground of spin orders for investigating fundamental physics and spintronic applications. However,…
We investigate the low-temperature spin dynamics of epitaxial lithium aluminum ferrite (LAFO) thin films using broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy from 0.44 K to 68 K. The results reveal a crossover from conventional cubic…
The dependence of the spin reorientation transition in ultra-thin ferromagnetic films on external magnetic fields is studied. For different orientations of the applied field with respect to the film, phase diagrams are calculated within a…