Ferromagnetic films evaporated at oblique incidence show invariably an uniaxial in-plane magnetic anisotropy component with easy axis perpendicular to the incidence plane. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) images reveal that oblique deposition results in rough films with highly anisotropic correlation functions of the surface profile. We show that simple shape anisotropy calculations using high-quality STM roughness data as input reproduce the measured anisotropies remarkably well and unambiguously relate them to the long-ranged dipolar interactions.
The semimetallic ErSi2 layer grown on Si(111) substrates provides an ideally confined 2D electron and hole gas that reflects in complex standing wave pattern at 77 K. The quasiparticles exist in a wide energy range from -800 to 300 meV without mixing with silicon bulk excitations. By comparing high resolution Fourier transform of dI/dV maps, with joint density of states calculations, we are able to determine the 2D band structure. We also clearly demonstrate that hole-hole and hole-electron quantum interferences dominate over electron-electron ones.
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