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http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JKMS.2009.19.2.047

Second Harmonic Rotational Anisotropy of Polycrystalline Fe Films on Glass Substrates  

Lee, Feel (Department of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Jeong, Jae-Woo (Department of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Lee, Hun-Sung (Department of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Lee, Kyung-Dong (Department of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Kim, Ji-Wan (Department of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Shin, Sung-Chul (Department of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Abstract
The surface structure of polycrystalline Fe films of various thicknesses on glass substrates have been studied using a Ti: Sapphire laser at 780 nm. We found that the surface structure possesses C$_s$ crystal structure close to $C_{2v}$ through symmetry consideration. We present one-fold intensity profile with one mirror plane in second harmonic (SH) intensity as a proof of $C_s$ symmetry. $C_s$ and $C_{2v}$ surface symmetries usually appear at the (110) surface of a cubic diamond single crystal [1]. Therefore this surface symmetry would be related to bcc (110) growth orientation coinciding with XRD measurement. Further we treated surface normalized SH asymmetry with various thicknesses. The SH asymmetry increases with increasing of film thickness. From these results, it is observed that the surface structure of thin polycrystalline Fe film below 5 nm is almost isotropic, while in the case of the thicker Fe films, surface structure have $C_s$ symmetry structure close to $C_{2v}$.
Keywords
second harmonic generation; Fe; rotational anisotropy;
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