Nuclear resonant magnetometry and its application to Fe/Cr multilayers

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Jul 16;93(3):037201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.037201. Epub 2004 Jul 12.

Abstract

We introduce nuclear resonant magnetometry as a means to record the magnetization curve of isotopically enhanced regions of a sample. It is based on nuclear resonant scattering with circularly polarized synchrotron radiation and the use of a nuclear resonant reference sample. We apply this approach to study the interlayer coupling in Fe/Cr(100) multilayers and to obtain a layer-specific magnetization curve. Our measurements provide experimental evidence for the existence of a nontrivial interlayer-coupling angle in Fe/Cr/Fe.