Thickness-Driven Spin Reorientation Transition in Co/Pd(111); In Situ SMOKE Three-Dimensional Vector Magnetometry

  • Lee, Jeong-Won (Dept. of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Sang-Koog (Dept. of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Jonggeol (Dept. of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Jeong, Jong-Ryul (Dept. of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Ahn, Jae-Seok (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Seoul) ;
  • Shin, Sung-Chul (Dept. of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 발행 : 2000.09.01

초록

We have developed a three-axis configurational in situ SMOKE apparatus by which three-dimensional vector magnetization reversal processes are studied for ultrathin Co films grown on a Pd (111) single crystal in the thickness range of spin-reorientation transition. This study provides a better understanding of magnetization reversal motions with the knowledge of 3 components of magnetization vector at the transition of an easy axis of magnetization from the film normal at 5 ML Co to in-plane at 6 ML Co (ML notes monolayer). For a 5.25 ML Co, it was observed that a slightly canted magnetization vector from the film normal rotated in the film plane under an applied field direction parallel to the film normal.

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