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Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 1649–1652 (1989)

Thermal magnetic relaxation in quasi-two-dimensional Fe films

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Z. Q. Qiu, S. H. Mayer, C. J. Gutierrez, H. Tang, and J. C. Walker
Department of Physics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

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Received 1 May 1989; published in the issue dated 9 October 1989

Several Fe(110)/Ag(111) superlattices with the Fe component 2 monolayers thick and the Ag component of varying thickness were produced by molecular-beam epitaxy. The Curie temperature was found to be higher than 500 K and a central feature in the Mössbauer spectra is shown to come from thermal magnetic relaxation of Fe islands. The magnetic hyperfine field has a linear temperature dependence and this is explained by a simple model based on the island structure of the Fe.

© 1989 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.1649
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.1649
PACS:
75.50.Rr, 75.70.Ak, 75.70.Cn, 76.80.+y

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Erratum: Z. Q. Qiu, S. H. Mayer, C. J. Gutierrez, H. Tang, and J. C. Walker, Thermal Magnetic Relaxation in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fe Films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2433 (1989).