Fe content dependence of synthetic-antiferromagnetic coupling in subnano-crystalline FeCoB/Ru/FeCoB films

Atsushi Hashimoto; Shin Saito; Migaku Takahashi

doi:10.1109/TMAG.2006.879432

Fe content dependence of synthetic-antiferromagnetic coupling in subnano-crystalline FeCoB/Ru/FeCoB films

Atsushi Hashimoto, Shin Saito, Migaku Takahashi

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Abstract

Ru thickness (d_Ru) dependence of flopping field (H_f) was investigated in subnano-crystalline (Co_100-xFe_x)₈₈B₁₂/Ru/(Co_100-xFe_x)₈₈B₁₂ films with various Fe content, x. The H_f with d_Ru showed oscillatory behavior with the period of 1.5 nm of d_Ru, which was independent of the Fe content. The first peak of H_f takes the maximum value at x = 65 at.%, and the second peak was degenerated with increasing the Fe content. These results are analyzed in terms of interlayer coupling effect including the bilinear (J₁) and biquadratic (J₂) coupling energy. As the d_Ru decreases, the J₁ oscillates and J₂ monotonously increases. Although the J₂ effect appeared at thinner d_Ru, i.e., d_Ru <0.7 nm, the J₁effect was rather stronger than the J₂ one. The magnitude of the first peak of J₁was greatly enhanced with increasing Fe content, and took the maximum at x = 65 at.%. Therefore, a smooth interface was established in subnano-crystalline FeCoB, and the intrinsic strong J₁was realized in FeCoB/Ru/FeCoB system even in ultrathin d_Ru of 0.3 nm.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2342-2344
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume	42
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2006.879432
Publication status	Published - 2006 Oct

Keywords

Interlayer coupling
perpendicular recording medium
soft magnetic underlayer
subnano-crystalline FeCoB

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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