Effect of interfacial microstructure on magnetic properties of dysprosium multilayers

Authors

Z.S. Shan, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
B. Jacobsen, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Sy_Hwang Liou, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
David J. Sellmyer, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

April 1991

Comments

Published by American Institute of Physics. J. Appl. Phys., 69, 5289(1991). © 1991 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. http://jap.aip.org/jap/.

Abstract

Nanostructured multilayers of Dy/M (M=Ta, Cu, Y, and Co) have been investigated. Correlations between the microstructure and the magnetic properties, in particular the effects of interfacial structure, are discussed. The temperature and layer-thickness dependences of anisotropy of these Dy/M multilayers can be interpreted reasonably in light of the model previously developed for the perpendicular anisotropy in amorphous multilayers.