Direct determination of the surface termination in full Heusler alloys by means of low energy electron diffraction

Details Direct determination of the surface termination in full Heusler alloys by means of low energy electron diffraction Direct determination of the surface termination in full Heusler alloys by means of low energy electron diffraction

2009-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/0910.4909v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

submitted to Appl. Phys. Lett. 3 pages, 2 figures

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The performance of Heusler based magnetoresistive multilayer devices depends crucially on the spin polarization and thus on the structural details of the involved surfaces. Using low energy electron diffraction (LEED), one can non-destructively distinguish between important surface terminations of Co2XY full-Heusler alloys. We present an analysis of the LEED patterns of the Y-Z ,the vacancy-Z, the Co and the disordered B2 and A2 terminations. As an example, we show that the surface geometries of bulk L21 ordered Co2MnSi and bulk B2 disordered Co2Cr0.6Fe0.4Al can be determined by comparing the experimental LEED patterns with the presented reference patterns.

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