Published April 1999 | Version v1
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X-ray scattering from magnetic, rough surfaces

Creators

  • 1. Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
  • 2. Materials Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20379 (United States)

Description

We present expressions for the resonant magnetic x-ray scattering from rough surfaces; using our formulas we analyze the structural and magnetic roughnesses, as well as the correlation between them. We demonstrate that the leading contribution to the difference in the diffuse scattering between left- and right-circularly polarized light for a rough surface with in-plane magnetization vanishes unless the structural and magnetic roughnesses are correlated. The effects of magnetic domain structure and magnetic dead layers on the surface scattering are also discussed. copyright 1999 American Institute of Physics

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal Volume
85
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 4619-4621
ISSN
0021-8979
CODEN
JAPIAU

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
30037728
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
Descriptors DEI
DOMAIN STRUCTURE; INELASTIC SCATTERING; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIZATION; ROUGHNESS; STRUCTURAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Descriptors DEC
COHERENT SCATTERING; DICHROISM; DIFFRACTION; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MATERIALS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING; SURFACE PROPERTIES