@article{1e712ae635fd43609bff3aed08866e21,
title = "The effect of magnetocrystalline anisotropy on the domain structure of patterned Fe2CrSi Heusler alloy thin films",
abstract = "The effects of magnetic anisotropy on domain structures in half-metallic Heusler alloy Fe2CrSi thin film elements were investigated using high resolution x-ray magnetic circular dichroism photoemission electron microscopy. The transition of the dominating contribution from the magnetocrystalline anisotropy to the shape anisotropy is observed in square-shaped elements when reducing the size below 2.0-2.5 μm. In particular, we identify in disk-shaped Heusler elements the vortex state as the ground state. The shape-anisotropy dominated, well-defined magnetization configuration shows the potential of the Fe2CrSi Heusler alloy for applications in vortex-core- or domain-wall-devices, where the high spin polarization is desirable.",
author = "T. Miyawaki and M. Foerster and S. Finizio and Vaz, {C. A.F.} and Mawass, {M. A.} and K. Inagaki and N. Fukatani and {Le Guyader}, L. and F. Nolting and K. Ueda and H. Asano and M. Kl{\"a}ui",
note = "Funding Information: This work was funded by MEXT KAKENHI Grant No. 20360005 and 23656214, JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 24760547, the JSPS Institutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits, the JSPS Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Vitalizing Brain Circulation, EUs 7th Framework Programme IFOX (NMP3-LA-2010 246102), MAGWIRE (FP7-ICT-2009-5 257707), the European Research Council through the Starting Independent Researcher Grant MASPIC (ERC-2007-StG 208162), the Graduate School of Excellence “Materials Science in Mainz” (GSC266), the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the DFG. Part of this work was performed at the Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.",
year = "2013",
month = aug,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1063/1.4818800",
language = "English",
volume = "114",
journal = "Journal of Applied Physics",
issn = "0021-8979",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "7",
}