Grazing-incidence synchrotron-radiation 57Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy using a nuclear Bragg monochromator and its application to the study of magnetic thin films.
J Synchrotron Radiat
; 19(Pt 2): 198-204, 2012 Mar.
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Energy-domain grazing-incidence (57)Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy (E-GIMS) with synchrotron radiation (SR) has been developed to study surface and interface structures of thin films. Highly brilliant (57)Fe-Mössbauer radiation, filtered from SR by a (57)FeBO(3) single-crystal nuclear Bragg monochromator, allows conventional Mössbauer spectroscopy to be performed for dilute (57)Fe in a mirror-like film in any bunch-mode operation of SR. A theoretical and experimental study of the specular reflections from isotope-enriched ((57)Fe 95%) and natural-abundance ((57)Fe â¼2%) iron thin films has been carried out to clarify the basic features of the coherent interference between electronic and nuclear resonant scattering of (57)Fe-Mössbauer radiation in thin films. Moreover, a new surface- and interface-sensitive method has been developed by the combination of SR-based E-GIMS and the (57)Fe-probe layer technique, which enables us to probe interfacial complex magnetic structures in thin films with atomic-scale depth resolution.
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