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O: Oberflächenphysik
O 18: Nanostructures II
O 18.7: Talk
Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 12:45–13:00, PHY C213
Nanostructuring of NiMnSb(110): influences on surface magnetic properties — •Christian Eickhoff1,2, Hristo Kolev1, Georgi Rangelov1, Lifeng Chi1, and Markus Donath1 — 1Physikalisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany — 2now at: Max-Born-Institut, Max-Born-Str. 2a, 12489 Berlin, Germany
The magnetic and electronic properties, crystal structure and surface morphology at the (110) surface of the ferromagnetic half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb have been investigated by means of magneto-optical Kerr effect, appearance potential spectroscopy, low-energy electron diffraction and atomic-force microscopy.
A standard sputter-anneal preparation procedure leads to a stoichiometric surface which is predicted to show a high spin polarisation at the Fermi level. We observed, in contrast, a reduced surface magnetic signal. Atomic-force microscopy reveals a nanostructuring of the NiMnSb surface which proceeds with the number of preparations. The changed morphology of the NiMnSb surface is made responsible for the observed reduced surface magnetization [1].
[1] H. Kolev, G. Rangelov, J. Braun, and M. Donath: Reduced surface magnetization of NiMnSb(001), Phys. Rev. B 72, 104415 (2005)