Interlayer Magnetic Coupling in Transition-Metal Multilayered Structures

1991 ◽  
Vol 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Levy ◽  
J.L. Fry ◽  
E.C. Ethridge

AbstractRecent experiments have confirmed the main features of the interlayer coupling we calculated for Fe/Cr multilayers. We discuss the origins of these features and present new results on the interlayer coupling for Fe/Mo(100) multilayered structures. We find they share many of the features seen in Fe/Cr structures; in particular the rapid oscillations of the coupling which are suppressed by the roughness of the interfaces in sputtered superlattices.

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 4780-4782 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Fry ◽  
E. C. Ethridge ◽  
P. M. Levy ◽  
Y. Wang

1995 ◽  
Vol 384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhu-Pei Shi ◽  
Barry M. Klein

ABSTRACTThe Anderson model of local-state conduction electron mixing is applied to the problem of interlayer magnetic coupling in metallic multilayered structures with palladium (Pd) spacer layers. An oscillation period of 5 spacer monolayers and the tendency towards ferromagnetic bias of the interlayer magnetic coupling that we obtain are consistent with the experimental data.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (30) ◽  
pp. eabb9379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Tartaglia ◽  
Joseph N. Tang ◽  
Jose L. Lado ◽  
Faranak Bahrami ◽  
Mykola Abramchuk ◽  
...  

Van der Waals (VdW) materials have opened new directions in the study of low dimensional magnetism. A largely unexplored arena is the intrinsic tuning of VdW magnets toward new ground states. Chromium trihalides provided the first such example with a change of interlayer magnetic coupling emerging upon exfoliation. Here, we take a different approach to engineer previously unknown ground states, not by exfoliation, but by tuning the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) of the nonmagnetic ligand atoms (Cl, Br, I). We synthesize a three-halide series, CrCl3 − x − yBrxIy, and map their magnetic properties as a function of Cl, Br, and I content. The resulting triangular phase diagrams unveil a frustrated regime near CrCl3. First-principles calculations confirm that the frustration is driven by a competition between the chromium and halide SOCs. Furthermore, we reveal a field-induced change of interlayer coupling in the bulk of CrCl3 − x − yBrxIy crystals at the same field as in the exfoliation experiments.


1990 ◽  
Vol 65 (21) ◽  
pp. 2732-2735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Wang ◽  
P. M. Levy ◽  
J. L. Fry

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