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THIN SOLID FILMS
Volume 520, Issue 6, Pages 2184-2189Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2011.10.143
Keywords
Exchange spring; Soft/hard magnetic bilayers; FePt; Conversion Electron Mossbauer Spectroscopy; Magnetometry
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- DST (New Delhi) [INT/Romania/P-07/07]
- Romanian Ministry of Research [CB317/2009, 12-129/2008, PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0232]
- DST, New Delhi at CSR, lndore
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Structural and magnetic properties of exchange spring magnets consisting of hard magnetic (FePt) and soft magnetic (Fe and Co) bilayers. prepared by ion beam sputtering method are studied via X-ray diffraction (XRD), magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). Thin tracer layers of Fe-57 were introduced in the soft layer in order to observe the Fe spin structure and interfacial diffusion by Conversion Electron Mossbauer Spectroscopy (CEMS). The observed in-plane exchange spring behavior extends also to the magnetic hard layer, whose switching field can be tuned in an unexpected manner via the top soft magnetic layer. To explain the observed phenomenon it is suggested that the increased switching field, found in the system with a Co/Fe bilayer acting as a single soft magnetic layer, is compatible with a peculiar behavior of the stiffness coefficient of the heterogeneous soft magnetic layer. According to this observation, possibilities to maximize the exchange spring effects via suitably chosen non-homogeneous soft magnetic layers are open. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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