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Ding, H. F., Pütter, S., Oepen, H.-P., Kirschner, J.

Spin-reorientatin transition in thin films studied by the component-resolved Kerr effect
Physical Review B 63, (13),pp 134425 (7) Springer-Verlag, (2001)
We present a method to separate the longitudinal, polar, and equatorial magnetization components that may contribute to a mixed magneto-optical Kerr-effect signal and demonstrate how the spin-reorientation transition (SRT) can be investigated by means of simple Kerr magnetometry. In a Co/Au(111) film with thickness within the SRT region we find hysterisis loops with nonvanishing remanence in all three components when a field is applied within the film plane. A vertical field, however, drives the same film into a single domain state exhibiting full remanence. The fact that remanence is found in all magnetization components, and full remancence is obtained in a vertical field, rules out that the transition proceeds via a state of canting of magnetization and indicates that it proceeds via a state of coexisting phases.

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