Soft magnetic properties of crystalline high Bs Fe-Co-Si and Fe-Co-Si-Al sputtered films

Author

Hayakawa, M. ; Hayashi, K. ; Ishikawa, W. ; Ochiai, Y. ; Matsuda, H. ; Iwasaki, Y. ; Aso, K.

Author_Institution

Sony Corporation Research Center, Yokohama, Japan

Volume

23

Issue

5

fYear

1987

fDate

9/1/1987 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

3092

Lastpage

3094

Abstract

Soft magnetic properties of crystalline Fe-Co-Si and Fe-Co-Si-Al sputtered films have been investigated. Fe-Co-Si alloy films show high saturation flux density up to 14 kG with low coercivity of 0.7 Oe around the narrow composition range of Co 11 to 13 at.% and Si 20 to 22 at.%. In Fe-Si-Al the composition with soft magnetism was restricted around the Sendust composition. Fe-Co-Si-Al films which are solid solution of Fe-Co-Si and Fe-Si-Al show high saturation flux density of 12 to 14 kG with low coercive force of about 0.5 Oe. The soft magnetic characteristics in Fe-Co-Si-Al alloy films were comparable to Sendust film. These results suggest the existence of a composition region which possesses both zero-magnetostriction and zero-magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant in Fe-Co-Si and Fe-Co-Si-Al alloy films.

Keywords

Magnetic films/devices; Magnetic recording/reading heads; Nonlinear magnetics; Soft magnetic materials/devices; Cobalt alloys; Coercive force; Crystallization; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic films; Magnetic flux; Magnetic properties; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Saturation magnetization; Soft magnetic materials;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.1987.1065395

Filename

1065395