Magnetic stripe domains in coupled magnetic sandwiches

Y Z Wu; C Won; A Scholl; A Doran; H W Zhao; X F Jin; Z Q Qiu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.117205

Magnetic stripe domains in coupled magnetic sandwiches

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Sep 10;93(11):117205. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.117205. Epub 2004 Sep 10.

Authors

Y Z Wu¹, C Won, A Scholl, A Doran, H W Zhao, X F Jin, Z Q Qiu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley California 94720, USA.

PMID: 15447377
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.117205

Abstract

Magnetic stripe domains in the spin reorientation transition region are investigated in (Fe/Ni)/Cu(001) and Co/Cu/(Fe/Ni)/Cu(001) using photoemission electron microscopy. For (Fe/Ni)/Cu(001), the stripe domain width decreases exponentially as the Fe/Ni film approaches the spin reorientation transition point. For Co/Cu/(Fe/Ni)/Cu(001), the Fe/Ni stripe orientation is aligned with the Co in-plane magnetization, and the stripe domain width decreases exponentially with increasing the interlayer coupling between the Fe/Ni and Co films. By considering magnetic stripes within an in-plane magnetic field, we reveal a universal dependence of the stripe domain width on the magnetic anisotropy and on the interlayer coupling.