Journal
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 369, Issue 1-2, Pages 213-216Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2003.09.087
Keywords
scanning tunneling microscopy; molecular beam epitaxy; anisotropy
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Understanding the correlation between film structure and its ferromagnetic properties is very important for applications. To this end, we have investigated epitaxial and smooth Ni films grown on WO substrates using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and do sputtering. To establish correlation between film morphology and structure with magnetic properties, we have used in situ and ex situ scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images alone with studies on the azimuthal dependence of the magnetization reversal utilizing longitudinal Kerr effect (MOKE). Our MOKE azitnuthal studies on annealed MBE-grown (0 0 1) Ni films indicate additional uniaxial anisotropy possibly related to surface nano-patterning. superimposed to the expected four-fold symmetry due to magneto-crystalline anisotropy. This uniaxial anisotropy is absent in non-annealed MBE-grown (0 0 1) Ni films as well as sputtered annealed and non-annealed (0 0 1) Ni films. Conversely, neither annealed MBE-grown nor sputtered (1 1 1) oriented Ni films exhibit surface nano-patterning and their structural and magnetic properties exhibit identical azimuthal dependence. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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