Based on the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, the film growth and magnetic properties of Ni (100) films are investigated. The simulated results indicate that the surface roughness of the Ni films drops with the increase of the substrate temperature and the decrease of the deposition rate. The Curie temperature Tc is greatly influenced by the surface roughness and size of Ni films. Moreover, it is found that the Curie temperatures of the films are related to the mean coordination number Z and the surface roughness r. The simulated results explain the experimental facts well.

Based on Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, the magnetization behavior of mixed ferrimagnetic spin system with single-ion anisotropy under external field is investigated. It is assumed that the element of the mixed system is composed of spin-1 and spin-3/2 by turns. The simulated results indicate that there exist the magnetization curves at the ground state on the one-dimensional spin chain, two-dimensional spin system as well as three-dimensional spin system. It found that the size, anisotropy constant and spin configurations influence evidently the magnetic properties of the mixed system. Moreover, the magnetic plateaus and the phase diagrams of the systems can be well interpreted in terms of the simple calculation of energy.