The antiferromagnetic arrangement of the magnetic moments of Fe layers in sputtered Fe/Cr multilayered structures is directly demonstrated from polarized neutron reflectometry studies. Such an antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling is also consistent with magnetization studies on a series of [Fe/Cr]N structures. A remanent magnetization is observed for structures containing an odd number of bilayers but no remanent moment is found for an even number of bilayers. By examining the dependence of saturation field on the number of bilayers it is shown that the antiferromagnetic coupling strength is independent of the number of bilayers and is the same for superlattice and sandwich structures.
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