Seminar Festkörper- und Grenzflächenphysik KOMET - experimentell
July 7, 2015 at noon c.t. in Newton-Raum, Staudingerweg 9, 1. Stock, Raum 122 (Nebengebäude)Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Elmers
Institut für Physik, KOMET 5
elmers@uni-mainz.de
Prof. Dr. H. J. Elmers
The antiferromagnetic compound Mn2Au is characterized by large spin-orbit coupling, which makes it a promising material for novel antiferromagnetic spintronics (see e.g. [Bar13, Zel14]).
We prepared thin films of Mn2Au by RF-sputtering from a stoichiometric target on MgO and Al2O3 substrates using different buffer layers. Epitaxial samples with different growth directions such as [100],
[001], and [101], were obtained. The samples were characterized by xray diffraction, magnetometry, AFM and SEM. Additionally, magnetotransport investigations will be presented.
[Bar13] V.M.T.S. Barthem et al. Nat. Commun. 4, 2892 (2013).
[Zel14] J. Zelezny et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 157201 (2014).