TY - JOUR A1 - Yanilkin, Igor A1 - Gumarov, Amir A1 - Gizzatullina, Gulnaz A1 - Yusupov, Roman A1 - Tagirov, Lenar T1 - Controllable two- vs three-state magnetization switching in single-layer epitaxial Pd1-xFex films and epitaxial Pd0.92Fe0.08/Ag/Pd0.96Fe0.04 heterostructure JF - Beilstein Archives Y1 - 2021/// SN - M3 - doi:10.3762/bxiv.2021.93.v1 N2 - We have investigated the low-temperature magnetoresistive properties of a thin epitaxial Pd0.92Fe0.08 film at different directions of the current and the applied magnetic field. The obtained experimental results are well described within an assumption of a single-domain magnetic state of the film. In a wide range of the appled field directions, the magnetization reversal proceeds in two steps via the intermediate easy axis. An epitaxial heterostructure of two magnetically separated ferromagnetic layers, Pd0.92Fe0.08/Ag/Pd0.96Fe0.04, was synthesized and studied with the dc magnetometry. Its magnetic configuration diagram has been constructed and the conditions have been determined for a controllable switching between stable parallel, orthogonal, and antiparallel arrangements of magnetic moments of the layers. ER -