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Magnetic Properties and Crystallography of Selected Co/Pt Multilayers with Rare-Earth Additions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2012

G.A. Bertero ,
R.L. White  and
R. Sinclair
G.A. Bertero
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305
R.L. White
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305
R. Sinclair
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305
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Abstract

We have sputter-deposited a series of Pt/CO Multilayers with differing amounts of rare-earth (RE) in an effort to improve the uniaxial perpendicular anisotropy in these structures. The present work investigates the influence on the magnetic properties of Tb and Ho incorporated both at the interfaces of Pt/CO Multilayers and into the Co layers. The uniaxial anisotropy improved significantly only for those multilayers that showed poor perpendicular anisotropy in the undoped state, in particular, those with large (∼30 Å) bilayer periods. High resolution transmission electron microscopy was used to study these multilayers in cross-section. The Multilayer structures present strong [111] texture with grain sizes ranging from 200 to 600 Å. It is found that the RE does not produce a significant change in the growth texture of the multilayers until a critical amount is introduced beyond which the multilayer structure amorphizes resulting in a compositionally modulated amorphous film.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 313: Symposium Q1 – Magnetic Ultrathin Films, Multilayers and Surfaces/Magnetic Interfaces-Physics and Characterizations , 1993 , 817
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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