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Interfacial structure and half-metallic ferromagnetism inCo2MnSi-based magnetic tunnel junctions (2006)
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Telling, N. D., Keatley, P. S., van der Laan, G., Hicken, R. J., Arenholz, E., Sakuraba, Y., …Miyazaki, T. Interfacial structure and half-metallic ferromagnetism inCo2MnSi-based magnetic tunnel junctions. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 74(22), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.74.224439

X-ray absorption (XAS) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) techniques are utilized to explore the ferromagnetic/barrier interface in Co 2 Mn Si full Heusler alloy magnetic tunnel junctions. Structural and magnetic properties of the in... Read More about Interfacial structure and half-metallic ferromagnetism inCo2MnSi-based magnetic tunnel junctions.

XAS and XMCD Evidence for Species-Dependent Partitioning of Arsenic During Microbial Reduction of Ferrihydrite to Magnetite (2006)
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Coker, V. S., Gault, A. G., Pearce, C. I., van der Laan, G., Telling, N. D., Charnock, J. M., …Lloyd, J. R. (2006). XAS and XMCD Evidence for Species-Dependent Partitioning of Arsenic During Microbial Reduction of Ferrihydrite to Magnetite. Environmental Science and Technology, 40(24), 7745-7750. https://doi.org/10.1021/es060990%2B

Poorly crystalline Fe(III) oxyhydroxides, ubiquitously distributed as mineral coatings and discrete particles in aquifer sediments, are well-known hosts of sedimentary As. Microbial reduction of these phases is widely thought to be responsible for th... Read More about XAS and XMCD Evidence for Species-Dependent Partitioning of Arsenic During Microbial Reduction of Ferrihydrite to Magnetite.

Facility for combined in situ magnetron sputtering and soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (2006)
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Telling, N. D., van der Laan, G., Georgieva, M. T., & Farley, N. R. S. (2006). Facility for combined in situ magnetron sputtering and soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism. Review of Scientific Instruments, 77(7), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2219719

An ultrahigh vacuum chamber that enables the in situ growth of thin films and multilayers by magnetron sputtering techniques is described. Following film preparation, x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) me... Read More about Facility for combined in situ magnetron sputtering and soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism.

Evidence of a barrier oxidation dependence on the interfacial magnetism in Co/alumina based magnetic tunnel junctions (2006)
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Telling, N. D., van der Laan, G., Ladak, S., Hicken, R. J., & Arenholz, E. (2006). Evidence of a barrier oxidation dependence on the interfacial magnetism in Co/alumina based magnetic tunnel junctions. Journal of Applied Physics, 99(8), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2171002

edge have been applied to explore the near-interfacial magnetism of Co electrodes in Co/alumina based magnetic tunnel junctions. By taking into account the formation of CoO at the ferromagnetic (FM)/barrier interface, the change in the total magneti... Read More about Evidence of a barrier oxidation dependence on the interfacial magnetism in Co/alumina based magnetic tunnel junctions.

A link between the coercivity and microstructure of high moment Fe films and their use in magnetic tunnel junctions (2005)
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Georgieva, M., Telling, N., & Grundy, P. (2006). A link between the coercivity and microstructure of high moment Fe films and their use in magnetic tunnel junctions. Materials Science and Engineering: B, 126(2-3), 287-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2005.09.026

Magnetron sputtered single Fe films have been “softened” magnetically by controlled N-doping during the sputter deposition. This technique allows a reduction in grain size and coercivity of the Fe films, without decreasing the saturation magnetizatio... Read More about A link between the coercivity and microstructure of high moment Fe films and their use in magnetic tunnel junctions.

Probing magnetic ordering in multilayers using soft x-ray resonant magnetic scattering (2005)
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Marrows, C. H., Steadman, P., Hampson, A. C., Michez, L., Hickey, B. J., Telling, N. D., …Langridge, S. Probing magnetic ordering in multilayers using soft x-ray resonant magnetic scattering. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 72(2), Article 024421. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.72.024421

We have carried out resonant magnetic x-ray scattering from Co ∕ Ru multilayers with weak antiferromagnetic coupling. We have measured hysteresis loops at different points in reciprocal space (specular or diffuse, integer or half-order peaks),... Read More about Probing magnetic ordering in multilayers using soft x-ray resonant magnetic scattering.

Spin polarization and barrier-oxidation effects at the Co∕alumina interface in magnetic tunnel junctions (2004)
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Telling, N. D., van der Laan, G., Ladak, S., & Hicken, R. J. (2004). Spin polarization and barrier-oxidation effects at the Co∕alumina interface in magnetic tunnel junctions. Applied Physics Letters, 85(17), 3803-3805. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1812383

The electronic structure and polarization in magnetic tunnel junctions prepared with varying degrees of barrier-layer oxidation have been studied using x-ray absorption spectroscopy across the   absorption edges. It was found that the electron... Read More about Spin polarization and barrier-oxidation effects at the Co∕alumina interface in magnetic tunnel junctions.

Magnetically soft, high moment grain-refined Fe films: Application to magnetic tunnel junctions (2004)
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Georgieva, M. T., Telling, N. D., Grundy, P. J., Faunce, C. A., & Jones, G. A. (2004). Magnetically soft, high moment grain-refined Fe films: Application to magnetic tunnel junctions. Journal of Applied Physics, 96(5), 2923-2926. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1776627

The effect of -doping on the microstructure and magnetic properties of thin layers has been employed to construct all -electrode magnetic tunnel junctions that displayed the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) effect. Using low nitrogen doses, a... Read More about Magnetically soft, high moment grain-refined Fe films: Application to magnetic tunnel junctions.

Fe M2,3 X-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity on epitaxial Fe3−δO4 thin films (2003)
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Telling, N., Haznar, A., van der Laan, G., Roper, M., Schedin, F., & Thornton, G. (2004). Fe M2,3 X-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity on epitaxial Fe3−δO4 thin films. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 345(1-4), 157-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2003.11.044

We report the use of soft X-ray resonant reflectivity at the Fe M2,3 edges to probe the magnetic circular dichroism of non-stoichiometric Fe3−δO4 thin films grown epitaxially on Al2O3. Photon energy scans of the magnetic dichroism display features th... Read More about Fe M2,3 X-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity on epitaxial Fe3−δO4 thin films.