THEORETICAL-STUDY OF THE ONSET OF MAGNETISM IN (FE)X/(RU)X SUPERLATTICES

被引:20
作者
KNAB, D
KOENIG, C
机构
[1] Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, Université Louis Pasteur, 67070 Strasbourg
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1991年 / 43卷 / 10期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.43.8370
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
The electronic and magnetic structure of (Fe)x/(Ru)x (x being the number of atomic planes in each layer) hexagonal-close-packed superlattices has been investigated by self-consistent spin-polarized linear-muffin-tin-orbital-atomic-sphere-approximation calculations for x ranging from 1 to 5. It is shown that for x = 1 no magnetic order exists due to the strong hybridization between the Fe and Ru atoms. For larger thicknesses several magnetic phases appear, with a ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, or ferrimagnetic ordering within each layer. The total energies of these phases are very close to each other, and the ground state depends upon x. Comparison is made with the available experimental results on (Fe)x/(Ru)y samples grown by molecular-beam epitaxy.
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页码:8370 / 8378
页数:9
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