Publication detail

Stable room-temperature ferromagnetic phase at the FeRh(100) surface

PRESSACCO, F. UHLÍŘ, V. GATTI, M. BENDOUNAN, A. FULLERTON, E. SIROTTI, F.

English title

Stable room-temperature ferromagnetic phase at the FeRh(100) surface

Type

WoS Article

Language

en

Original abstract

Interfaces and low dimensionality are sources of strong modifications of electronic, structural, and magnetic properties of materials. FeRh alloys are an excellent example because of the first-order phase transition taking place at ~400 K from an antiferromagnetic phase at room temperature to a high temperature ferromagnetic one. It is accompanied by a resistance change and volume expansion of about 1%. We have investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of FeRh(100) epitaxially grown on MgO by combining spectroscopies characterized by different probing depths, namely X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and photoelectron spectroscopy. We find that the symmetry breaking induced at the Rh-terminated surface stabilizes a surface ferromagnetic layer involving five planes of Fe and Rh atoms in the nominally antiferromagnetic phase at room temperature. First-principles calculations provide a microscopic description of the structural relaxation and the electron spin-density distribution that support the experimental findings.

Keywords in English

Circular-dichroism; Oxide interfaces; FeRh alloy; Magnetization; Photoemission

Released

2016-03-03

Publisher

Springer Nature

ISSN

2045-2322

Journal

Scientific Reports

Volume

6

Number

1

Pages from–to

1–9

Pages count

9

BIBTEX


@article{BUT133850,
  author="Frederico {Pressacco} and Vojtěch {Uhlíř} and Matteo {Gatti} and A. {Bendounan} and E.E. {Fullerton} and F. {Sirotti}",
  title="Stable room-temperature ferromagnetic phase at the FeRh(100) surface",
  journal="Scientific Reports",
  year="2016",
  volume="6",
  number="1",
  pages="1--9",
  doi="10.1038/srep22383",
  issn="2045-2322",
  url="https://www.nature.com/articles/srep22383"
}