Influence of the dipole interaction on the direction of the magnetization in thin ferromagnetic films
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 49 (18) , 12868-12871
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.49.12868
Abstract
In this paper we investigate the influence of a surface anisotropy and the dipole interaction on the magnetization of thin films. The surface anisotropy favors a perpendicular orientation while the dipole interaction favors an in-plane magnetization. It is shown that these competing interactions for certain values of the parameters may result in a temperature-driven switching transition from an out-of-plane to an in-plane ordered state.Keywords
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