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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 66, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.172409
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Spin-reorientation transition (SRT) behaviors in ultrathin Co films grown on both Pt(111) and Pd(111) single-crystal substrates are investigated with in situ magneto-optical Kerr effects. At the region of SRT from the perpendicular to in-plane magnetization with the increasing of Co thickness, canted out-of-plane orientations are observed, from which we can determine not only the effective second- (K-2) but also fourth- (K-4) order anisotropy constants. Both the constants, which can be separated into bulk K-2b(4b) and interface anisotropy terms K-2s(4s) are essential to understand the stable canted out-of-plane magnetization. We found that the value of K-2s for Co/Pt(111) is larger than that for Co/Pd (111), resulting in the later onset thickness and wider range of the observed SRT, while the negative small values of K-4s in the both systems yield the stable canted phases. In addition, we observed different polarization effects of Pd and Pt near the interfaces which might also contribute the contrasting SRT behaviors.
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