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Special features of the multilayer Pd/Fe films structure determined from X-ray data

M.V. Starkova, E.V. Likhushina, S.V. Sveshnikov, A.A. Katsnel'son

Moscow University Physics Bulletin 1999. 54. N 6. P. 51

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X-Ray studies of thin multilayer Pd/Fe films were performed for samples with a fixed thickness of Fe layers ($\sim$6 Å) and a variable thickness of Pd layers (6-40 Å), samples with a fixed thickness of Pd layers ($\sim$30 Å) and a variable thickness of Fe layers (6-27 Å), and a sample with Pd and Fe layers equally thick ($\sim$9 Å). Films with Fe and Pd layers about 6 Å thick were shown to be structurally homogeneous. An increase in the Pd layer thickness caused the appearance of a structure modulated (quasi-sinusoidal) with respect to the concentrations of the components. If the thickness of Fe layers was 9 Å or more, a modulated FCC-Fe phase separated. In the presence of Pd layers 30 Å thick, a multilayer structure with the thickness of Fe layers reached 23 Å formed.

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M.V. Starkova, E.V. Likhushina, S.V. Sveshnikov, A.A. Katsnel'son
Department of Solid-State Physics, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia
Issue 6, 1999

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