Experimental phase diagram of perpendicularly magnetized ultrathin ferromagnetic films

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Feb 19;104(7):077203. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.077203. Epub 2010 Feb 19.

Abstract

We image the domain patterns in perpendicularly magnetized ultrathin Fe films on Cu(100) as a function of the temperature T and the applied magnetic field H. Between the low-field stripe phase and the high-field uniform phase we find a bubble phase, consisting of reversed circular domains in a homogeneous background. The curvature of the transition lines in the H-T parameter space is in contrast to the general expectations. The pattern transformations show yet undetected scaling properties.