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On the spin reorientation of Co/Au based magnetic nano-dot arrays.

Andreas Persson 1,  Lidia Gridneva 1,  Miguel Angel Nino 2,5,  Julio Camarero 2,  Juanjo de Miguel 2,  Rodolfo Miranda 2,  Christian Hofer 3,  Christian Teichert 3,  Thomas Bobek 4,  Andrea Locatelli 5,  Dimitri Arvanitis 1

1. Physics Department Uppsala University, Box 530, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
2. Dept. Fisica Materia Condensada, Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain
3. Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Franz Josef Str 18, Leoben 8700, Austria
4. Institute of Semiconductor Electronics RWTH Aachen, Sommerfeldstr. 24, Aachen 52074, Germany
5. Sincrotrone Trieste (ELETTRA), Basovizza (Trieste) 34012, Italy

Abstract
We discuss here, an X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) study of (Co/Au) and (Au/Co/Au) ferromagnetic nano-dot arrays grown in-situ on self-organized SiGe substrates, using grazing angle shadow deposition as presented earlier for Co. /1/ We characterized the samples by X-ray Photoelectron Emission Microscopy (XPEEM), X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD) at the Co L-edges in the XAS mode and XMCD-PEEM. Experiments were performed both at ELETTRA and MAX-lab. These dot arrays exhibit a considerable degree of lateral order, are ferromagnetic and single domain at room temperature. Macroscopic magnetic domains composed of several dots are observed. At low Co coverage, for Co/Au dots, dots with an out of plane moment were evidenced by XMCD-PEEM, at room temperature. Indeed, using angular dependent XMCD studies, versus x-ray incidence angle, for dots containing 2.5 ML Co layers on a 5 ML Au buffer grown on top of the SiGe nano-structured template, a strong stable macroscopic out-of-plane remanence, can be directly observed by XMCD at 100K. Such a sample can also be remanently magnetized in the sample plane. At room temperature no stable out of plane macroscopic remanence can be observed, only smaller out of plane domains can be evidenced by means of XMCD-PEEM. With a thicker Co coverage of 6 ML for Co/Au dots, it is found that the magnetization of the dots lies within the surface plane. A study of the Co orbital moment as a function of both Co and Au cap thickness in these (Co/Au) dot arrays reveals a systematic increase of orbital moment, correlated with the appearance of a macroscopic out-of-plane magnetization. This work is supported by the EC as part of the NAMASOS project STRP NMP2/ CT/2003/505 854 .

1. A. M. Mulders, A. Fraile-Rodríguez, D. Arvanitis, C. Hofer, C. Teichert, M. Á. Niño, J. Camarero, J. J. de Miguel, R. Miranda, K. Lyutovich, E. Kasper, S. Heun, A. Locatelli, Phys. Rev. B vol.71, 214 422, 2005.

 

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Presentation: Oral at E-MRS Fall Meeting 2007, Symposium I, by Andreas Persson
See On-line Journal of E-MRS Fall Meeting 2007

Submitted: 2007-05-13 12:40
Revised:   2009-06-07 00:44