Within the collaborative research center HoMMage, Shalini Sharma has published our latest results on Sm-Co magnetic thin film model structures in the high-impact journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. The paper shows how the nanoscale composition of different Sm-Co phases contributes to magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial thin films.

S. Sharma, A. Zintler, D. Günzing, J. Lill, D. M. Meira, R. Eilhardt, H. K. Singh, R. Xie, G. Gkouzia, M. Major, I. Radulov, P. Komissinskiy, H. Zhang, K. Skokov, H. Wende, Y. K. Takahashi, K. Ollefs, L. Molina-Luna, and L. Alff
Epitaxy Induced Highly Ordered Sm₂Co₁₇–SmCo₅ Nanoscale Thin-Film Magnets
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13 32415−32423 (2021)
doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c04780