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Spin Reorientations Induced by Morphology Changes in Fe/Ag(001)
By means of magneto-optical Kerr effect we observe spin reorientations from
in-plane to out-of-plane and vice versa upon annealing thin Fe films on Ag(001)
at increasing temperatures. Scanning tunneling microscopy images of the
different Fe films are used to quantify the surface roughness. The observed
spin reorientations can be explained with the experimentally acquired roughness
parameters by taking into account the effect of roughness on both the magnetic
dipolar and the magnetocrystalline anisotropy.Comment: 4 pages with 3 EPS figure