Preparation and characterisation of epitaxial Pt/Cu/FeMn/Co thin films on (10…

FeMn/Co thin-films, a purely metallic exchange-bias system,were prepared on (100)-oriented MgO single crystals. The layers were grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The crystalline and magnetic properties could be tuned by using sputtered Pt buffer layers deposited at variable temperatures. A transition of the crystalline orientation from (111)-terminated layers at lower deposition temperat…