Electronic and magnetic properties at rough and sharp transition metal-metal interfaces: An augmented space approach

The augmented space formalism (ASF) coupled with recursion method and a tight binding linear muffin-tin orbital basis has been applied to study the layerwise electronic and magnetic properties of (0 0 1) interfaces of body-centered cubic Fe/Ag and face centered cubic Co/Ag, Fe/Cu and Co/Cu. Three different thickness of interfaces are considered: mono, two and three layers of transition metals with metal substrates. Layers of an interface are considered disordered alloys with different degree of disorderedness due to interdiffusion of transition metal layer atoms and substrate atoms during growth process. We show that ASF is applicable to sharp interface also. Result of three layers of transition metal rough interface agrees well with available experimental result.