Temperature Dependence of Antiferromagnetic Interlayer Exchange Coupling in EuS-PbS Multilayers

摘要

Antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling in semiconductor EuS-PbS-EuS ferromagnetic trilayers grown on PbS (001) substrates with ultrathin (0.6-1.2 nm) nonmagnetic PbS spacers is studied by SQUID mag-netometry and model calculations. Analysis of the experimentally observed magnetic field and temperature dependence of the magnetization of EuS-PbS structures reveals a rapid decrease in the interlayer coupling energy with increasing temperature indicating a temperature dependence of the microscopic coupling mechanism acting in these all-semiconductor ferromagnetic/ nonmagnetic multilayers.