Magnetic Structural Analysis of Magnetic Thin Films Artificially Modulated on a Monatomic Layer scale by Polarized Neutron Scattering Technique

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1. Polarized neutron options for a triple-axis neutron spectrometer, TAS-1, and a neutron reflectometer, SUIREN, have been improved. The spectrometer and reflectometer are installed at research reactor JRR-3 of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and are now capable of the detailed magnetic structural analysis of the thin magnetic films whose scattering volumes are very tiny.2. Spherical polarization analysis of an artificially confined spin-density wave in Cr/Sn multilayer has been successfully given using combination of TAS-1 and CRYOPAD (CRYOgenic Polarization Analysis Device). CRYOPAD can measure the three components of the polarization of scattered neutrons, and consequently can determine complicated spin structures in antiferromagnetic specimen.3. Magnetic films synthesized by the investigators and the other collaborators have been investigated using TAS-1 and SUIREN. For example it has been revealed that no giant magnetic moment exists in α"-Fe_<16>N_2 thin films with an optimum nitrization using TAS-1. The giant magnetic moment in α"-Fe_<16>N_2 had been a long term issue.4. Deposition of Ruthenium (Ru) has been succeeded using the Knudsen Cell with the rate of 0.001nm/sec. at 1985 C. Ru is a key material for improvement of the performance of magnetic recoding read-head. The deposition using K cell had never been tried because of the high melting point of Ru although high-quality epitaxial growth was generally expected using the K cell. We are now going to the next step to synthesize high-quality epitaxial films using the K cell and the van der Waals epitaxy method.