Magnetic structures of FeTiO-FeO solid solution thin films studied by soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and ab initio multiplet calculations

北條 元*; 藤田 晃司*; 池野 豪一*; 的場 智彦*; 溝口 照康*; 田中 功*; 中村 哲也*; 竹田 幸治; 岡根 哲夫; 田中 勝久*

Applied Physics Letters, 104(11), p.112408_1 - 112408_5, 2014/03

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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4868638

The solid solutions between ilmenite and hematite have recently attracted considerable attention as a spintronic material due to their interesting magnetic and electrical properties. In this study, the electronic and magnetic structures of epitaxially grown ilmenite-hematite solid solution thin films were investigated by combining X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES), X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) for two different crystallographic projections, and first-principles theoretical calculations.