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Second-order magnetoelastic effects: From the Dirac equation to the magnetic properties of ultrathin epitaxial films for magnetic thin-film applications

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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 93 Issue 10

Abstract

It has always been the endeavour of Professor Kronmüller to combine various methods in order to attain a comprehensive understanding of a physical phenomenon on all relevant scales. In this spirit, we combine the phenomenological nonlinear theory of magnetoelasticity with the relativistic density functional electron theory to describe the magnetoelastic behaviour of epitaxial films. We explain the two already performed cantilever bending beam experiments on the magnetoelasticity and underpin the assumption that second-order magnetoelastic effects are very important for epitaxial Fe films. A complete set of six cantilever experiments is introduced which allows to calculate the intrinsic first- and second-order magnetoelastic constants for cubic materials, and these constants are calculated ab initio for Fe, face-centred cubic Co, Ni, Ni3Fe and CsCl-type CoFe.

Abstract

Es war immer das Anliegen von Professor Kronmüller, verlmschiedene Methoden miteinander zu kombinieren, um zu einem umfassenden Verständnis eines physikalischen Phänomens auf allen relevanten Skalen zu kommen. In diesem Sinne kombinieren wir die phänomenologische nichtlineare Theorie der Magnetoelastizität mit der relativistischen elektronischen Dichtefunktionaltheorie, um das magnetoelastische Verhalten epitaktischer Filme zu beschreiben. Wir erklären die zwei bereits durchgeführten Biegebalkenexperimente zur Magnetoelastizität und untermauern die Annahme der Experimentatoren, dass magnetoelastische Effekte zweiter Ordnung bei eptitaktischen Filmen wichtig sind. Es wird ein kompletter Satz von sechs Biegebalken-experimenten eingeführt, mit dem man die intrinsischen magnetoelastischen Konstanten erster und zweiter Ordnung für kubische Materialien bestimmen kann, und diese Konstanten werden ab initio für Fe sowie kubisch-flächenzentriertes Co, Ni und Ni3Fe und für CoFe mit CsCl-Struktur berechnet.

Keywords: Ultrathin magnetic films; Magnetoelastic properties; Electron theory
Professor Dr. Manfred Fähnle Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung Heisenbergstr. 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany Tel.: +49 711 689 1913 Fax: +49 711 689 1932

Dedicated to Professor Dr. Helmut Kronmüller on the occasion of his 70th birthday

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Received: 2002-05-03
Published Online: 2022-02-12

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ijmr-2002-0168
Keywords for this article
Ultrathin magnetic films; Magnetoelastic properties; Electron theory

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editorial
  3. Editorial
  4. Articles/Aufsätze
  5. Interplay between chemical and magnetic roughness of Pt in a Pt/Co bilayer investigated with X-ray resonant magnetic reflectometry
  6. Thermal stability and magnetic anisotropy dispersion in high-density hard-disk media
  7. Thickness dependence of magnetization structures in thin Permalloy rectangles
  8. Solving the selectivity problem in magnetic random access memories using configurations that form C-states
  9. Second-order magnetoelastic effects: From the Dirac equation to the magnetic properties of ultrathin epitaxial films for magnetic thin-film applications
  10. Magnetic relaxation in nanocrystalline systems: linking Monte Carlo steps with time
  11. Effect of domain size on the magneto-elastic damping in amorphous ferromagnetic metals
  12. The character and role of grain boundaries in NdFeB-type alloys and magnets
  13. Magnetic domain structure and spin reorientation process
  14. Magnetic properties of Tb(Fe, Mo)12 and Tb(Fe, Mo)12C compounds
  15. Microstructure, magnetic properties and magnetic hardening in 2 : 17 Sm–Co magnets
  16. Micromagnetism and microstructure – tailoring of high-performance permanent magnets
  17. Metastable alloys at moderate cooling rates
  18. Thermal critical phenomena and crossover between critical regimes in ferromagnets with long-range interactions
  19. Vacancies in thermal equilibrium and ferromagnetism near the Curie temperature
  20. The vortex lattice in superconductors
  21. Functional substrates – a novel approach to tailor transport properties and flux-line pinning in YBa2Cu3O7 – x thin films
  22. Superconducting permanent magnets and their application in magnetic levitation
  23. Magneto-optical studies of flux pinning in high-temperature superconductors
  24. Atomic transport in amorphous metals
  25. A novel technique for measuring diffusivities of short-lived radioisotopes in solids
  26. Hydrogen four-level tunnel systems in substitutional body-centred cubic alloys
  27. Magnetic relaxation phenomena in cobalt
  28. The Verwey transition in magnetite as studied by means of definite impurity doping
  29. Notifications/Mitteilungen
  30. Personal/Personelles
  31. Bücher/Books
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  33. DGM Training/DGM Fortbildung
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