TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnetic properties of L10-FePt/permalloy exchange-spring films
AU - Utsumiya, Kazutoshi
AU - Seki, Takeshi
AU - Takanashi, Koki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research in Priority Area “Creation and control of spin current” (Grant No. 19048002) and Young Scientists (B) (No. 23760659) from MEXT. The authors would like to acknowledge Mr. Y. Murakami for technical assistance. The structural characterization was carried out at the Advanced Research Center of Metallic Glasses, IMR, Tohoku University.
PY - 2011/11/15
Y1 - 2011/11/15
N2 - In-plane magnetized L10-FePt/permalloy (Py) bilayer films were prepared on an MgO (110) single crystal substrate, and their exchange-spring behavior was investigated. The FePt single layer deposited at the substrate temperature (Ts) of 300 C showed large uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in the in-plane direction. However, the coercivity (Hc) was reduced remarkably when the FePt layer of Ts 300 C was combined with the Py layer, resulting in no observation of exchange-spring behavior. By elevating Ts up to 450 C, on the other hand, Hc for the FePt layer was enhanced. Owing to the increase in Hc for Ts 450 C, spring back was definitely observed in the minor magnetization curves for the FePt/Py bilayers. This suggests the existence of the twisted magnetic structure in the Py layer. The dependence of exchange-spring behavior on the Py layer thickness was systematically examined. The experimental results were also discussed in comparison with numerical calculations.
AB - In-plane magnetized L10-FePt/permalloy (Py) bilayer films were prepared on an MgO (110) single crystal substrate, and their exchange-spring behavior was investigated. The FePt single layer deposited at the substrate temperature (Ts) of 300 C showed large uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in the in-plane direction. However, the coercivity (Hc) was reduced remarkably when the FePt layer of Ts 300 C was combined with the Py layer, resulting in no observation of exchange-spring behavior. By elevating Ts up to 450 C, on the other hand, Hc for the FePt layer was enhanced. Owing to the increase in Hc for Ts 450 C, spring back was definitely observed in the minor magnetization curves for the FePt/Py bilayers. This suggests the existence of the twisted magnetic structure in the Py layer. The dependence of exchange-spring behavior on the Py layer thickness was systematically examined. The experimental results were also discussed in comparison with numerical calculations.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.3662901
DO - 10.1063/1.3662901
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:82555186589
SN - 0021-8979
VL - 110
JO - Journal of Applied Physics
JF - Journal of Applied Physics
IS - 10
M1 - 103911
ER -