TY - JOUR
T1 - Temperature and magnetic field dependence of the soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism intensity for the Mn-L3 edge of MnFeP0.78Ge0.22
AU - Tsunekawa, Masanori
AU - Imada, Shin
AU - Matsumoto, Atsushi
AU - Yamasaki, Atsushi
AU - Suga, Shigemasa
AU - Schmid, Benjamin
AU - Higashimichi, Hirosato
AU - Hattori, Yoshiro
AU - Nakamura, Tetsuya
AU - Brück, Ekkes
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge K. Koyama and A. Sekiyama for fruitful discussions. The authors thank T. Muro and Y. Yakubo for supporting the experiment. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for 21st century COE “Core research and Advanced Education Center for Materials Science and Nano Engineering” from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. The XMCD measurements were performed in BL25SU of SPring-8 under the approval of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (2005B0710).
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - Soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements were performed at the L3 edge of manganese for MnFeP0.78Ge0.22 at 290 and 279 K. Temperature and magnetic field dependence of the XMCD intensity was clearly observed, which is consistent with that of the magnetization measurements as reported for the related MnFe(P,As) systems. Our results suggest that the unoccupied electronic states of Mn above the Fermi level would be modified through the first-order field-induced magnetic transition.
AB - Soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements were performed at the L3 edge of manganese for MnFeP0.78Ge0.22 at 290 and 279 K. Temperature and magnetic field dependence of the XMCD intensity was clearly observed, which is consistent with that of the magnetization measurements as reported for the related MnFe(P,As) systems. Our results suggest that the unoccupied electronic states of Mn above the Fermi level would be modified through the first-order field-induced magnetic transition.
KW - Magnetic circular dichroism
KW - Magnetocaloric effect
KW - Synchrotron radiation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jmmm.2006.10.977
DO - 10.1016/j.jmmm.2006.10.977
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847689722
SN - 0304-8853
VL - 310
SP - e1010-e1011
JO - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
JF - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
IS - 2 SUPPL. PART 3
ER -