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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 45: Magnetic Coupling and Spin Structures

MA 45.6: Talk

Thursday, March 14, 2013, 16:15–16:30, H10

Direct manipulation of the uncompensated antiferromagnetic spins — •Amitesh Paul¹, Neelima Paul², Stefan Mattauch³, and Peter Böni¹ — ¹Technische Universität München, Physik Department E21, — ²Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, — ³Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH,

Incident ion energy to matrix electrons of a material is dissipated within a narrow cylinder surrounding the swift heavy ion path. The temperature of the lattice exceeds the melting point and upon quenching causes nanometric modifications. We present here a unique ex situ approach in manipulating the uncompensated spins in antiferromagnetic layers of ferro-/antiferromagnetic (CoO-Co) exchange coupled systems on a nanometric scale. We use the impact of relativistic heavy ion (1-2 GeV) irradiation on such systems. We find an increase in the bias field and a restoration of the reversal via domain nucleation in the trained state. These are identified as plausible results of ion-induced antiferromagnetic ordering with little or no effect on the layer structure. This study demonstrates, therefore, the possibility of nanoscale tailoring of exchange coupled systems that survive even in the trained state.