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DOI码：10.1103/PhysRevB.91.214406

发表刊物：Phys. Rev. B

摘要：The surface of expanded face-centered tetragonal antiferromagnetic Mn films of a few atomic monolayers thickness grown epitaxially on Co/Cu(001) was investigated at room temperature by scanning tunneling microscopy and scanning tunneling spectroscopy using a ferromagnetic ring-shaped bulk iron probe. We show that the main contribution to the contrast modulation observed as a function of Mn thickness in differential conductance maps is not due to spin-polarized tunneling from a layerwise antiferromagnetic spin alignment. Instead, it is mainly of electronic origin resulting from layer-dependent electronic properties of the Mn film, probably related to different levels of intermixing with Co atoms. On the atomic scale, the Mn surface demonstrates a geometrical reconstruction with a (12×2) periodicity in two orthogonal domains on the fourfold symmetric substrate with an apparent surface corrugation of up to 0.3 Å. Simultaneously recorded differential conductance maps show different textures in the two orthogonal domains, providing evidence for noncollinearity in the Mn surface spin structure.

论文类型：期刊论文

文献类型：J

卷号：91

期号：21

页面范围：214406

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收录刊物：SCI

第一作者：Jiaming Song

通讯作者：Wolfgang Kuch

合写作者：Chii-Bin Wu

合写作者：Bin Zhang

合写作者：Jianli Xu