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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 127, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0005925
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP17J03125, JP19H00860]
- Spintronics Research Network of Japan
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This study investigates element-specific atomic distances and strains in ferromagnetic (FM) nano-thin films deposited on a flexible substrate, which can be modulated by stretching the substrate. Extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy was used for the experiments. Both in-plane tensile and out-of-plane compressive strains were investigated by applying %-order tensile strains to the substrate. The atomic distance changes induced by stretching the substrate were quantitatively discussed by considering the Poisson compression, crystalline orientations of the FM metals, and polarization in the EXAFS measurement. Consequently, the ratio of strain transfer from the flexible substrate to the FM layers was estimated to be about 30% and 60% in Co and Fe nano-thin films, respectively. The strain transfer in Co films with different Co or Pt underlayer thicknesses was also measured. The results are compared with the thickness dependence of the effective magnetoelastic coupling constant, which represents the magnitude of the inverse magnetostriction effect. Although the strain transfer partially contributes to the thickness dependence, the difference in the Co lattice constant is suggested to have a significant influence on the effective magnetoelastic coupling constant.
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