1999/05/31 by K. Malarz, K Malarz, A. Z. Maksymowicz +1 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials #Magnetic properties of thin films #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0040-6090(00)00680-5
published as Thin Solid Films 367 (2000) 28 · 7 pages + 14 figures (to appear in Thin Solid Films, journal preprint style applied)
arxiv created 1999/07/28 · openalex publication_date 2000/05/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this work a simple solid-on-solid (SOS) model of inhomogeneous films epitaxial growth is presented. The results of the computer simulations based on the random deposition (RD) enriched by a local relaxation which tends to maximize the number of a particle-particle lateral bonds (PPLB) against barriers blocking diffusion are presented. The influence of strength of the atoms interactions and barriers for diffusion on film roughness and possible bridges between the layers in tri-layered sandwich system are considered. For magnetic layers with a nonmagnetic spacer the bridging is responsible for direct magnetic coupling between layers. Also variations of the spacer thickness, when scanning the film surface, is essential for uniformity of the magnetic coupling between the layers. Number of bridges for very thin spacer, and variation of the spacer thickness are discussed in this work.