Influence of Au on Formation of $L1_0$-Type Phase in Nanoscale [Fe$_{50}$Pt$_{50}$/Au/Fe$_{50}$Pt$_{50}$]$_n$ Films
M. Yu. Verbytska$^{1}$, M. N. Shamis$^{1}$, K. A. Grayvoronska$^{2}$, T. I. Verbytska$^{1}$, Iu. M. Makogon$^{1}$, Yu. V. Kudryavtsev$^{3}$
$^{1}$National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’, 37 Peremohy Ave., UA-03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
$^{2}$I. M. Frantsevich Institute for Problems in Materials Science, NAS of Ukraine, 3 Academician Krzhyzhanovsky Str., UA-03142 Kyiv, Ukraine
$^{3}$G. V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, NAS of Ukraine, 36 Academician Vernadsky Blvd., UA-03142 Kyiv, Ukraine
Received: 28.12.2017. Download: PDF
By means of the materials science methods, the effect of additional Au layers with a low surface energy (of $\cong$ 1.5 J/m$^2$) in [Fe$_{50}$Pt$_{50}$(15 nm)/Au(7.5 nm)/Fe$_{50}$Pt$_{50}$(15 nm)]$_n$ film compositions (where $n$ = 1, 2) obtained by the magnetron sputtering on SiO$_2$(100 nm)/Si(001) substrates on processes of thermally activated ordered $L1_0$-phase formation at annealing in vacuum is studied. As established, the disordered $A1$-FePt phase is formed in Fe$_{50}$Pt$_{50}$ (15 nm) layer in film compositions at deposition on substrates at room temperature. Both the ordering process and the ordered $L1_0$-FePt phase formation in films depend on level of compressive mechanical stresses in Fe$_{50}$Pt$_{50}$ (15 nm) layer. Increasing in intermediate Au layer number and total thickness of film composition in three times decreases of compressive-stresses’ level that leads to slowing-down of ordering processes, increasing in start ordering temperature from 650°C to 800°C, reducing in coercive force, and inhibiting of (001) texture with easy-magnetization axis location perpendicularly to film surface.
Key words: film, ordered $L1_0$-FePt phase, annealing, coercive force.
URL: http://mfint.imp.kiev.ua/en/abstract/v40/i03/0381.html
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/mfint.40.03.0381
PACS: 64.70.Nd, 68.35.Ct, 68.37.Rt, 68.55.J-, 68.60.Bs, 75.70.Ak, 81.15.Cd
Citation: M. Yu. Verbytska, M. N. Shamis, K. A. Grayvoronska, T. I. Verbytska, Iu. M. Makogon, and Yu. V. Kudryavtsev, Influence of Au on Formation of $L1_0$-Type Phase in Nanoscale [Fe$_{50}$Pt$_{50}$/Au/Fe$_{50}$Pt$_{50}$]$_n$ Films, Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 40, No. 3: 381—395 (2018) (in Russian)