Influence of Au on Formation of L10-Type Phase in Nanoscale [Fe50Pt50/Au/Fe50Pt50]n Films
M. Yu. Verbytska1, M. N. Shamis1, K. A. Grayvoronska2, T. I. Verbytska1, Iu. M. Makogon1, Yu. V. Kudryavtsev3
1National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’, 37 Peremohy Ave., UA-03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
2I. M. Frantsevich Institute for Problems in Materials Science, NAS of Ukraine, 3 Academician Krzhyzhanovsky Str., UA-03142 Kyiv, Ukraine
3G. 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 ≅ 1.5 J/m2) in [Fe50Pt50(15 nm)/Au(7.5 nm)/Fe50Pt50(15 nm)]n film compositions (where n = 1, 2) obtained by the magnetron sputtering on SiO2(100 nm)/Si(001) substrates on processes of thermally activated ordered L10-phase formation at annealing in vacuum is studied. As established, the disordered A1-FePt phase is formed in Fe50Pt50 (15 nm) layer in film compositions at deposition on substrates at room temperature. Both the ordering process and the ordered L10-FePt phase formation in films depend on level of compressive mechanical stresses in Fe50Pt50 (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 L10-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 L10-Type Phase in Nanoscale [Fe50Pt50/Au/Fe50Pt50]n Films, Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 40, No. 3: 381—395 (2018) (in Russian)