Electronic and magnetic structure of thin Ni films on Co/Cu(001)

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作者
Dhesi, SS [1 ]
Dürr, HA
van der Laan, G
Dudzik, E
Brookes, NB
机构
[1] SERC, Daresbury Lab, Magnet Spect Grp, Warrington WA4 4AD, Cheshire, England
[2] Univ York, Dept Phys, York YO1 5DD, N Yorkshire, England
[3] European Synchrotron Radiat Facil, F-38043 Grenoble, France
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1999年 / 60卷 / 18期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.60.12852
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
The electronic and magnetic structure of ferromagnetic Ni films grown epitaxially on ultrathin Films of Co has been studied by x-ray-absorption spectroscopy (XAS) using circular polarization. The growth morphology of the films was verified using high-resolution low-energy electron diffraction and indicated an incomplete layer-by-layer growth mode for the Co and Ni films deposited on Cu(001). We report the presence of additional peaks in the x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) as predicted by the configuration interaction model. The ground-state magnetic moments were obtained from the XMCD sum rules at the Ni 2p edge. For a film thickness below 2 ML the number of holes and the spin polarization (spin moment per hole) show a gradual decrease, while the orbital polarization (orbital moment per hole) and the spin-orbit interaction show a gradual increase in magnitude. The 6-eV satellite structure, which is present in the XAS and XMCD of bulk Ni, disappears for submonolayer coverages while the dichroism due to "diffuse magnetism" between the L-3 and L-3 edges is strongly enhanced. These observations are ascribed to changes in the hybridization (electronic mu;mg) as a function of film thickness, which influences the ground-state d(8) weight and the s-state spin polarization. The strongly increased orbital moment per spin provides a good measure for the degree of localization. It is shown that for Ni thin firms a localization of the wave function does not lead to an enhancement in the total magnetic moment, but, on the contrary, its value is twice as small as the bulk value. [S0163-1829(99)0521 1-8].
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页码:12852 / 12860
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