Dresden 2006 – scientific programme

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O: Oberflächenphysik

O 29: Poster session II (Nanostructures, Magnetism, Particles and clusters, Scanning probe techniques, Time-resolved spectroscopy, Structure and dynamics, Semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, Oxides and insulators, Solid-liquid interfaces)

O 29.16: Poster

Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 14:30–17:30, P2

Observation of Ferromagnetic Coupling in Eu/Gd(0001) by Spin-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy — •Yury Dedkov¹, Elena Voloshina², Thomas Kleissner¹, Steffen Danzenbaeher¹, Serguei Molodtsov¹, and Clemens Laubschat¹ — ¹Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany — ²Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany

We report on a magnetic analysis by means of spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of an atomically flat heteromagnetic rare-earth interface of 1 ML Eu/Gd(0001). The measurements reveal a high net Eu magnetization at low temperatures reflected by a spin polarization of about +15% of the Eu 4f state. This magnetic Eu configuration is due to a strong ferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling across the Eu/Gd interface which overcomes a weak negative intralayer coupling between Eu spins in the hexagonal two-dimensional lattice.