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Li, J., Chen, G., Wu, Y. Z., Rotenberg, E., Przybylski, M.

Quantum well states and oscillatory magnetic anisotropy in ultrathin Fe films
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 47, (6),pp 1603-1609 (2011)
The magnetic anisotropy of Fe film grown on vicinal Ag(1,1,10) surfaces studied with the in situ magneto-optic Kerr effect shows oscillatory behavior. We found that both the in-plane step-induced uniaxial anisotropy and the perpendicular anisotropy measured at low temperature show strong oscillations as a function of Fe thickness with a period of  ∼ 5.7 monolayers. Such novel oscillation of the anisotropy is attributed to the quantum well states (QWS) of d-band electrons at the Fermi level in the Fe film. These QWS have been observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy from a Fe wedge films grown on Ag(001) surface.