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Magnetoelastic coupling for Fe-Ga thin films epitaxially grown on different substrates

Ding, H.*; Ito, Keita*; Endo, Yasushi*; Takanashi, Koki; Seki, Takeshi*

This paper reports the systematic study on the structure, magnetic properties and magnetoelastic properties for the Fe$$_{100-x}$$Ga$$_{x}$$ (001) thin films epitaxially grown on the different substrates of GaAs(001) and MgO(001) using the sputtering technique. The alloy composition dependence of effective magnetoelastic coupling coefficient B$$_{eff}$$ along the FeGa [110] direction indicated that the largest magnetoelastic coupling was obtained for the Fe-Ga layer with x = 30 grown on the MgO substrate. Considering the results of structural analysis and magnetization measurement, the different crystallite sizes depending on the kind of substrate may give rise to the different magnetoelastic coupling strengths between the Fe-Ga layers on the MgO and the GaAs. The magnetostriction along the FeGa [111] direction was also estimated with the assumption of plausible elastic property of Fe-Ga, and showed the values comparable to the reported value of bulk Fe-Ga. This means the large magnetostriction can be obtained even for the Fe-Ga thin films epitaxially grown not only on the GaAs(001) but also on the MgO(001). The findings in this work will give a guideline for designing spintronic applications with a Fe-Ga layer exhibiting a large magnetoelastic coupling.

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