Title :
Fabrication of L11 Phase CoPt Film on Glass Substrate With [Co/Pt] Multilayer Structure
Author :
Chuan-Fa Huang ; An-Cheng Sun ; Hsian-Yuan Wu ; Fe-Te Yuan ; Jen-Hwa Hsu ; Shih-Nan Hsiao ; Hsin-Yi Lee ; Hsi-Chuan Lu ; Sea-Fue Wang ; Sharma, Parmanand
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem. Eng. & Mater. Sci., Yuan-Ze Univ., Chungli, Taiwan
Abstract :
L11 CoPt hlms were fabricated on glass substrate with Pt underlayer by alternate deposition of Co and Pt hlms. The effect of individual Co and Pt thickness, and the total CoPt hlm thickness on structural and magnetic properties were investigated. In this paper, the experiments were divided into two parts. In the hrst part, [(x)Co1/(x)Pt0.75]n hlms with varying Co and Pt hlms were deposited and overall film thickness was kept at 7 nm. In the second part, [(x)Co1/(x)Pt0.75]n hlms with different total thickness were deposited. In the first case, the coercivity (Hc⊥), squareness (S⊥), and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy are found to deteriorate with increasing Co and Pt layer thickness due to longer diffusion length. In the second case, the higher Hc⊥ with value of 110 kA/m is obtained in [(x)Co1/(x)Pt0.75]n film, and increasing total thickness of film results in lower Hc⊥. Therefore, it is demonstrated that the CoPt film sputtered by multilayer type with lower thicknesses of Co and Pt layer promotes the formation of L11 structure with excellent perpendicular magnetic properties.
Keywords :
cobalt alloys; coercive force; diffusion; magnetic multilayers; magnetic thin films; metallic thin films; perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; platinum; platinum alloys; CoPt thin films; CoPt-Co-Pt; L11 phase fabrication; SiO2; coercivity; diffusion length; film thickness; glass substrate; multilayer structure; perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; perpendicular magnetic properties; size 7 nm; structural properties; Glass; Magnetic multilayers; Magnetic properties; Nonhomogeneous media; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Substrates; L11 CoPt; microstructure; multilayer; perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA); thin film;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TMAG.2013.2297521