Origin of biquadratic exchange in Fe/Si/Fe

G.J. Strijkers; J.T. Kohlhepp; H.J.M. Swagten; W.J.M. Jonge, de

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1812

Origin of biquadratic exchange in Fe/Si/Fe

G.J. Strijkers, J.T. Kohlhepp, H.J.M. Swagten, W.J.M. Jonge, de

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The thickness and temperature dependences of the interlayer exchange coupling in well-defined molecular beam epitaxy-grown Fe/Si/Fe sandwich structures have been studied. The biquadratic coupling shows a strong temperature dependence in contrast to the bilinear coupling. Both depend exponentially on thickness. These observations can be well understood in the framework of Slonczewski's loose spins model [J. Appl. Phys. 73, 5957 (1993)]. No bilinear contribution of the loose spins to the coupling was observed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1812-1815
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	84
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1812
Publication status	Published - 2000

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