Magnetic characteristics and nanostructures of FePt granular films with GeO2 segregant

Takuya Ono; Tomohiro Moriya; Masatoshi Hatayama; Kaoru Tsumura; Nobuaki Kikuchi; Satoshi Okamoto; Osamu Kitakami; Takehito Shimatsu

doi:10.1063/1.4973473

Magnetic characteristics and nanostructures of FePt granular films with GeO₂ segregant

Takuya Ono, Tomohiro Moriya, Masatoshi Hatayama, Kaoru Tsumura, Nobuaki Kikuchi, Satoshi Okamoto, Osamu Kitakami, Takehito Shimatsu

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To realize a granular film composed of L1₀-FePt grains with high uniaxial magnetic anisotropy energy, K_u, and segregants for energy-assisted magnetic recording, a FePt-GeO₂/FePt-C stacked film was investigated in the engineering process. The FePt-GeO₂/FePt-C stacked film fabricated at a substrate temperature of 450 °C realized uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, Kugrain, of about 2.5 × 10⁷erg/cm³, which is normalized by the volume fraction of FePt grains, and a granular structure with an averaged grain size of 7.7 nm. As the thickness of the FePt-GeO₂ upper layer was increased to 9 nm, the K_u values were almost constant. That result differs absolutely from the thickness dependences of the other oxide segregant materials such as SiO₂ and TiO₂. Such differences on the oxide segregant are attributed to their chemical bond. The strong covalent bond of GeO₂ is expected to result in high K_u of the FePt-GeO₂/FePt-C stacked films.

Original language	English
Article number	022402
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	110
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4973473
Publication status	Published - 2017 Jan 9

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