Surface magnetoelastic coefficient

The relative influence of the surface (or interface) effects, of course, must decrease with increasing thickness t of the layer(s). Since the surface effects contribute per unit surface area , one defines, for the layer, effective parameters such that Beff, or heff, equals gbuik 2bsurt/t. Here, the factor 2 is put in, because a layer has two surfaces. In practice, this simple l/t dependence works satisfactorily. For nanocrystallites, both the volume fraction and the volume to surface ratio of the crystallites (i.e. their radius) must be taken into account (see also section 8). In connection to these effects, (non-linear) contributions to the magnetoelastic coefficients due to surface strains and surface roughness are expected to be considerable. 

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