• DocumentCode
    1192253
  • Title

    Magnetic properties of thin chromium Layers in Gd/Cr and Y/Cr multilayers studied using 119Sn Mössbauer spectroscopy

  • Author

    Jiko, Norihiro ; Mibu, Ko ; Baczewski, Lech T.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Chem. Res., Kyoto Univ., Japan
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    3352
  • Lastpage
    3354
  • Abstract
    Magnetism of Cr layers in Cr/Sn/Cr/Gd and Cr/Sn/Cr/Y multilayers with monatomic Sn layers grown on polyimide substrates has been studied using 119Sn Mössbauer spectroscopy. The results are quite different from those for Cr/Sn multilayers without the rare-earth metals. It is suggested that the Gd and Y layers have a strong effect that makes neighboring Cr nonmagnetic.
  • Keywords
    Mossbauer spectroscopy; antiferromagnetism; chromium alloys; gadolinium alloys; magnetic moments; magnetic multilayers; metallic epitaxial layers; yttrium alloys; Gd-Cr; Mossbauer spectroscopy; Y-Cr; magnetic properties; multilayers; thin layers; Chromium; Hafnium; Iron; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic multilayers; Magnetic properties; Nonhomogeneous media; Polyimides; Spectroscopy; Tin; Antiferromagnetic materials; MÖssbauer spectroscopy; nonhomogeneous media; rare-earth metals; transition metals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.2005.854710
  • Filename
    1519303