Kuch, W., Chelaru, L. I., Offi, F., Wang, J., Kotsugi, M., Kirschner, J.
Filling the seats: Atomic-scale roughness of antiferromagnetic films
BESSY Highlights 2006pp 14-15 (2007)
Saturday afternoon: The first supporters arrive and fill the stand, but this stadium has peculiar rules. On the orange seats women and men are seated in a strict alternating order, while the blue stand has to be filled with either only men or only women. The gender of the supporters in the blue seats has to be selected such that at the interface between the orange and blue seats preferably couples of men and women are placed. This makes the filling of the seats an interesting problem, which very much depends on the details of how the border line between orange and blue exactly runs. This is pretty much the situation of the interaction at the interface in a stack of ferro- and antiferromagntic films. These multilayers are important ingredients of many devices like hard disk read heads, magnetic sensors, or magnetic random access memories [1, 2].