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Santos, Benito and Gallego, Silvia and Mascaraque Susunaga, Arantzazu and McCarty, Kevin F. and Quesada, Adrian and Alpha, N'Diaye T. and Schmid, Andreas K. and Figuera, Juan de la (2012) Hydrogen-induced reversible spin-reorientation transition and magnetic stripe domain phase in bilayer Co on Ru(0001). Physical Review B, 85 (13). ISSN 1098-0121
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.134409
Abstract
Imaging the change in the magnetization vector in real time by spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy, we observed a hydrogen-induced, reversible spin-reorientation transition in a cobalt bilayer on Ru(0001). Initially, hydrogen sorption reduces the size of out-of-plane magnetic domains and leads to the formation of a magnetic stripe domain pattern, which can be understood as a consequence of reducing the out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy. Further hydrogen sorption induces a transition to an in-plane easy axis. Desorbing the hydrogen by heating the film to 400 K recovers the original out-of-plane magnetization. By means of ab initio calculations we determine that the origin of the transition is the local effect of the hybridization of the hydrogen orbital and the orbitals of the Co atoms bonded to the absorbed hydrogen.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © 2012 American Physical Society. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Initio molecular-dynamics, Total-energy calculations, Thin ferromagnetic film, Wave basis-set, Anisotropy, Chemisorption, Metals |
Subjects: | Sciences > Physics > Materials |
ID Code: | 28208 |
Deposited On: | 16 Feb 2015 10:40 |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2015 10:40 |
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