Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-g78kv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-26T09:29:28.097Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Role of Next-Nearest Neighbors in The Neel Model of Surface Anisotropy for BCC Crystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Robert L. White
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA 94305
Bruce M. Clemens
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA 94305
Get access

Abstract

We have extended the Neél model of surface anisotropy in b.c.c. crystals to include next nearest neighbor interaction. Fitting the experimental data for Fe (001) and (110) surfaces leads to some pradoxes which cast doubt on the Neél surface anisotropy as the dominant source of surface anisotropy in thin films.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

(1) Neél, L., J. Phys. Radium 15, 225 (1954).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2) Elmers, H.S. and Gradmann, U., Appl. Phys. A51, 1582 (1990).Google Scholar
(3) Heinrich, B., Cochran, J. D., Arrott, A. S., Purcell, S. T., Urquhart, K. B., Dutcher, J. R., and Egelhoff, W. F. Jr, Appl. Phys. A49, 473 (1989).Google Scholar
(4) Bergter, E., Gradmann, U. and Bergholz, R., Solid State Comm. 51, 565 (1985).Google Scholar