Depth-resolved investigation of the lateral magnetic correlations in a gradient nanocrystalline multilayer

E Kentzinger, U Rücker, B Toperverg, F Ott… - Physical Review B …, 2008 - APS
We present an investigation of the structural and magnetic correlations during the
remagnetization process of a gradient nanocrystalline multilayer with uniform uniaxial …

Algorithm for the real-structure design of neutron supermirrors

NK Pleshanov - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research …, 2004 - Elsevier
The effect of structure imperfections of neutron supermirrors on their performance is well
known. Nevertheless, supermirrors are designed with the algorithms based on the theories …

Applications of remanent supermirror polarizers

P Böni, D Clemens, MS Kumar, C Pappas - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 1999 - Elsevier
Recent developments in sputtering techniques allow the fabrication of multilayers with a
high degree of perfection over large areas. We show, that using reactive sputtering, it is …

PA20: A new SANS and GISANS project for soft matter, materials and magnetism

G Chaboussant, S Désert, P Lavie… - Journal of Physics …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
This article presents the new Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) instrument PA20
which will replace the PAXE instrument at LLB-Orphée. SANS is well-known to be especially …

Effect of nitrogen doping on surface morphology, microstructure, chemical composition and intrinsic stress of nickel thin films deposited by reactive sputtering

L Pan, R Qi, Y Feng, J Chen, Z Zhang, W Li… - Surface and Coatings …, 2019 - Elsevier
N-doped nickel thin films were fabricated by direct current reactive magnetron sputtering,
with varying nitrogen contents (0%–20%) added to the sputtering gas (Ar). To investigate the …

Development of high-polarization Fe/Ge neutron polarizing supermirror: Possibility of fine-tuning of scattering length density in ion beam sputtering

R Maruyama, D Yamazaki, K Akutsu… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The multilayer structure of Fe/Si and Fe/Ge systems fabricated by ion beam sputtering (IBS)
was investigated using X-ray and polarized neutron reflectivity measurements and scanning …

Interfacial roughness growth and its account in designing CoFeV/TiZr neutron supermirror with m= 2.5

NK Pleshanov, NG Kolyvanova, SV Metelev… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper contains some ideas and procedures to obtain and use previous knowledge of
the laws of the layered structure growth for improving the performance of supermirrors. The …

Influence of interstitial nitrogen on the structural and magnetic properties of multilayers

MS Kumar, P Böni - Journal of applied physics, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
FeCoV/TiNx multilayers are interesting systems here FeCoV stands for Fe50Co48V2 for
investigating the influence of reactive sputtering, layer thickness, and grain size on the …

Interface evolution of cosputtering NiC/Ti multilayer for neutron application

J Zhu, H Zhu, H Wang, J Zhang, J Shao… - Optical …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Tracking the interfacial evolution in Ni/Ti multilayers is a crucial aspect of fabricating neutron
supermirrors. According to the Debye–Waller factor, the reflectivity of neutron supermirrors is …

Layer-by-layer magnetometry of polarizing supermirrors

U Rücker, E Kentzinger, B Toperverg, F Ott, T Brückel - Applied Physics A, 2002 - Springer
We investigate the remagnetization behaviour of remanent polarizing supermirrors by
polarized neutron reflectometry. Such a mirror can be remagnetized in a magnetic field of 30 …