https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2013-30678-2
Regular Article
Rotatable anisotropy of epitaxial Fe1−xGax thin films*
1
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Centro Atómico Bariloche,
(R8402AGP) San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
2
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Av.
Rivadavia 1917, c1033
AAJ Buenos
Aires, Argentina
3
Laboratorio Internacional Franco-Argentino en Nanociencias, LIFAN,
INSP, UPMC-Paris 6, CNRS UMR 7588, 4 place Jussieu, 75252
Paris Cedex 05,
France
4
Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, INSP, UPMC-Paris 6, CNRS UMR
7588, 4 place
Jussieu, 75252
Paris Cedex 05,
France
5
Synchrotron SOLEIL, 91192
Gif Sur Yvette,
France
a
e-mail: marianabarturen@gmail.com
Received: 24 July 2012
Received in final form: 4 January 2013
Published online: 24 April 2013
We show by a combined magnetic force microscopy and synchrotron radiation spectroscopy study that stripe-like patterned magnetic domains are present in Fe1−xGax thin films. These stripes, whose origin is attributed to an out-of-plane magnetic component, can be rotated by an external magnetic field.
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2013