Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2009-12-14
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
Modern magnetic thin film devices owe their success in large part to effects emerging from interlayer coupling and exchange interaction at interfaces. A prominent example is exchange bias (EB), a magnetic coupling phenomenon found in ferromagnet (F)/antiferromagnet (AF) systems. Uncompensated pinned moments in the AF couple to the F via the interface causing an additional unidirectional anisotropy. As a result, the hysteresis of the F is shifted. The existence of such pinned moments is nowadays accepted although their physical nature and origin is still unknown. Here we present a thorough spectroscopic investigation based on X-ray magnetic circular dichroism which does for the first time provide direct information about the physics of pinned magnetic moments. Our data clearly shows that the orbital magnetic moment, which is usually widely quenched in transition metal systems, is the driving force behind exchange bias in Co/FeMn.
Audehm Patrick
Brück Sebastian
Goering Eberhard
Schütz Gisela
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