交换耦合双层膜PtMn/Co的微观结构和磁性

采用磁控溅射法在Si（100）基片上沉积了PtMn／Co双层膜，研究退火温度与样品微结构以及磁性的关系，发现退火温度越高，反铁磁性PtMn层由fcc非磁性相向fct反铁磁性相转变越充分，交换偏置场值Hex越高。同时，随着退火温度的升高，反铁磁层的晶粒尺寸逐渐增大，交换偏置场Hex值随着反铁磁层晶粒尺寸的增大几乎呈线性增加。研究了交换偏置场与铁磁层、反铁磁层厚度的关系，结果表明，在250℃退火时Hex与PtMn厚度关系为有峰值的曲线，此退火温度下反铁磁层临界厚度为20nm，最佳反铁磁层厚度为60nm。还发现了交换偏置场Hex随着铁磁性Co层厚度的增大几乎呈线性降低，充分说明铁磁、反铁磁交换耦合作用是一种界面耦合效应。     

Characterizing the Exchange Interaction of Sm-Co/Co （and Fe65Co35） Magnetic Films

Exchange interaction plays an important role on magnetic properties of nanocomposite magnets consisting of hard- and soft-magnetic phases. Here the exchange interaction in the Sm-Co/Co （and Fe65Co35） magnetic films was characterized by measuring static （mr（H）） and demagnetized （md（H）） remanence curves. According to conventional method： δm（H）=md（H） - [1 - 2mr（H）], the exchange interaction was evaluated. The switching fields H′p and Hp, at which static （mr（H）） and demagnetized （md（H）） remanence show the fastest change, were identified. The relative ratio η=Hp-H′p/Hp of switching fields H′p and Hp has a linear relationship with the maximum value δmmax of δm（H） curves, proposing an alternative way to characterize the exchange interaction.     

交换耦合双层膜NiO/Ni81Fe19的基片温度效应研究

用射频磁控溅射方法在不同基片温度下玻璃基片上分别制备NiO单层膜、NiFe单层膜和NiO／NiFe双层膜,研究了不同基片温度对膜的磁性能的影响．用振动样品磁强计（VSM）分析了膜的磁特性,结果表明：基片温度260℃时淀积的NiFe膜矫顽力Hc为184A·m^－1,小于室温淀积NiFe膜的H_c（584A·m^－1）,且磁滞回线的矩形度更好．室温下淀积NiO（50nm）／NiFe（15nm）双层膜的Hc为4000A·m^－1,交换耦会场（H_EX）仅为1600A·m^－1,磁滞回线的短形度很差,而260℃时淀积的双层膜的Hc下降到3120A·m^－1,H_EX却增大为4640A·m^－1,同时磁滞回线的矩形度也得到改善,其截止温度T_B高达230℃．X射线衍射（XRD）分析了膜的织构,结果表明：室温下淀积NiO膜呈现（220）织构,而260℃时淀积NiO膜呈现（111）织构;室温和260℃淀积的NiFe膜都呈（111）织构,但后者晶粒比前者大．     

Effect of Phosphor Addition on Intergranular Exchange Coupling of Co-Pt Thin Films

In this paper, ternary Co-Pt-P thin films were prepared by magnetron sputtering with platinum and home-made Co-P chips pasted on the cobalt target. The structure and magnetic properties were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), respectively. With increasing phosphor content, the coercivities of Co-12 at.% Pt-P films increase from 1034 to 1525 Oe owing to the exchange decoupling among magnetic grains. The decrease of inter-granular exchange coupling was confirmed by delta-M curve measurement and magnetic force microscopy (MFM). Transmission electronic microscopy (TEM) with nano- beam composition analysis shows that phosphor segregated at cobalt-based grain boundaries is responsible for the exchange decoupling. It is thus suggested that the phosphor addition is e?ective to tune the exchange coupling of magnetic grains, particularly for perpendicular recording media.     

Antiferromagnetic Coupling in Sputtered MgO Tunnel Junctions With Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy

Antiferromagnetic coupling between magnetic electrodes has been observed in non-epitaxial perpendicularly magnetized MgO tunnel junctions. This coupling becomes less negative with increasing annealing temperature up to 375degC. This can be possibly related to homogeneization of oxygen in the barrier and de-oxidation of the magnetic electrodes. However, the evolution of coupling field with both barrier and electrode thickness doesn't agree with existing coupling theories. Similar structures with in-plane magnetized electrodes exhibit classical ferromagnetic coupling.     

交换耦合双层膜NiO/Ni81Fe19的基片温度效应研究

用射频磁控溅射方法在不同基片温度下玻璃基片上分别制备NiO单层膜、NiFe单层膜和NiO／NiFe双层膜,研究了不同基片温度对膜的磁性能的影响．用振动样品磁强计（VSM）分析了膜的磁特性,结果表明：基片温度260℃时淀积的NiFe膜矫顽力Hc为184A·m－1,小于室温淀积NiFe膜的Hc（584A·m－1）,且磁滞回线的矩形度更好．室温下淀积NiO（50nm）／NiFe（15nm）双层膜的Hc为4000A·m－1,交换耦会场（HEX）仅为1600A·m－1,磁滞回线的短形度很差,而260℃时淀积的双层膜的Hc下降到3120A·m－1,HEX却增大为4640A·m－1,同时磁滞回线的矩形度也得到改善,其截止温度TB高达230℃．X射线衍射（XRD）分析了膜的织构,结果表明：室温下淀积NiO膜呈现（220）织构,而260℃时淀积NiO膜呈现（111）织构;室温和260℃淀积的NiFe膜都呈（111）织构,但后者晶粒比前者大．     

Pt Content Dependence of Magnetic Properties of CoPt/Ru Patterned Films

The magnetic properties of dot arrays made of CoPt/Ru perpendicular films (20 nm thickness) were examined as a function of Pt content. The CoPt dot arrays with a dot size D of 140 nm showed a single domain state, after removal of the applied field equal to H_r. H_r decreased from 5.2 kOe to 3.0 kOe as the Pt content decreased from 20 at% to 14 at%. The angular dependence of H_r for these dot arrays indicated coherent rotation of the magnetization during nucleation. The effective magnetic anisotropy, including the demagnetizing energy due to the dot shape, K_u ^eff, decreased as the Pt content decreased, resulting in the H_r reduction. The values of the switching volume for nucleation, V_sw , evaluated from the stabilizing energy barrier E₀, were a few percent of the dot volume. The switching diameter for nucleation, D_sw, increased slightly as the Pt content decreased, which was qualitatively in good agreement with the increase in the exchange length of magnetization. The value of E₀/k _BT (k_B is the Boltzmann constant and T is the absolute temperature) reduced as the Pt content decreased; however, E ₀/k_BT still had a high of 440 even at 14 at% Pt content. We successfully demonstrated the reduction of H_r for CoPt/Ru patterned films on reducing the Pt content, while simultaneously maintaining a high thermal stability. A calculation based on the experimental results suggested the potential recording density of CoPt/Ru dot arrays used for patterned media to be over 1 Tb/in²      

Magnetic Studies of Vapor-Deposited Co/Si(100) and Co/Glass Thin Films

Magnetic force microscopy and alternating gradient field magnetometry techniques were used to investigate the static magnetic properties of vapor-deposited cobalt films with different thicknesses ranging from 50 to 195 nm. Brillouin light scattering (BLS) and ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) techniques were performed to study the dynamic properties of these films. Despite thicknesses well above the theoretical critical thickness that allows the presence of stripe domains, only the thicker films exhibit a magnetic stripe domain structure. The magnetocrystalline anisotropy factors, deduced and computed from BLS and FMR measurements, were found to decrease with thickness. Values of these computed effective anistotropy factors, of up to 7×10⁶ erg?cm^?3, have been found. All these results will be discussed and correlated.     

Magnetoresistance and Magnetic Anisotropy Properties of Strain-Induced Co/Ag Multilayer Films

We report on the magnetoresistance (MR) properties of [Co(tCo)/Ag 1.5 nm]$_{20}$ multilayer and alloy films grown with the pulse electrochemical deposition on a polyamide substrate (1 cm$^{2}$ ). The induced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy was observed due to the effect of strain in all the multilayer films. The multilayer [Co 1.5 nm/Ag 1.5 nm]$_{20}$ showed a minimum hysteresis loss. The maximum MR ratio for Co/Ag was 9.2% at 1 kOe. A remarkable difference of magnetic field dependence of the magnetoresistance ratio was observed, corresponding to the orientation of magnetization curves.      

Effect of Exchange Bias on Magnetic Anisotropies in Fe/CoO Bilayers

We report on the structural and magnetic properties of exchange-biased Fe/CoO bilayers grown on MgO (001) substrates by using rf-sputtering. For varying Fe thicknesses (4 nm, 10 nm, and 20 nm) the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectra of bilayers have been studied as a function of temperature at X-band frequency. The resonance lines of FMR spectra have a relatively small linewidth indicating a high crystallinity of the Fe films. The room-temperature FMR data also show that the easy axis of Fe is in the film plane and parallel to the [110] crystallographic direction of MgO substrate. In addition, M versus H loops were recorded at selected temperatures by using VSM magnetometry. The VSM measurements indicate that the Fe thickness and temperature dependence of exchange-bias properties are in good agreement with the previous results on similar systems. However, the blocking temperature of the exchange-biased system is strongly reduced compared to the bulk values. This reduction in the blocking temperature is explained by both the thickness and superstoichiometric structure of antiferromagnetic CoO layer.     

真空退火Co/Pt多层膜的结构、磁及磁光特性分析

本文用直流磁控溅射方法制备了Co／Pt多层膜,并对其进行了较为细致的真空退火处理,结果表明,适度的低温退火可增加Co／Pt多层膜的矫顽力,而并不削弱其磁滞克尔回线的矩形特征．当退火温度达到300℃以后,Co／Pt多层膜的矫顽力、垂直各向异性和克尔角将强烈下降,晶体结构的改善及应力的释放、晶粒的增长、层间原子扩散引起的Co层有效厚度减薄,进而居里温度的下降,分别是Co／Pt多层膜在低温、中温、高温退火过程中,磁及磁光性能变化的主要机制．     

Effect of Uniaxial Pressure on the Isotope Effect on the Spectrum of Hamiltonians with Electron–Phonon Coupling

We have studied the effect of a change in the equilibrium nearest neighbour distances on the dynamics of charge and ions on a three-site cluster, identified with an O–Cu–O cluster present in high temperature superconductors. We consider a model Hamiltonian that contains an electronic part represented by a single band Hubbard model with onsite electronic correlations and a phononic part consisting of non-interacting Raman and infrared active phonons. The electron–phonon coupling is introduced through the change in interatomic distances generated by Coulomb repulsion between charges at neighbouring sites. For intermediate and strong values of the electron–phonon coupling, this model generates correlated electron–ion motion, i.e., polaron formation. In order to simulate the effect of change in the equilibrium nearest neighbour distances, we assume that the main effect such a change is a variation of the intersite electron hopping probability, t. We, therefore, studied the excitation spectrum of this model and the local lattice distortion in the Cu–O bond length as a function of t. We also studied the effect of a change in t in the polaron tunnelling energy when we use different oxygen isotopic masses, i.e., O¹⁶ and O¹⁸. We find that as function of t, the isotopic shift does not show a monotonic behaviour, as it does as a function of the electron–phonon coupling constant. It exhibits a minimum for values of t for which the electron–phonon coupling generates local lattice distortions with magnitudes similar to those observed experimentally in high-temperature superconductors. This observation could be related with the observed maximum on T _c as a function of the microstrain of the Cu–O bonds (Sanna et al. in Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 14(29–31), 2000; Bianconi et al. in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 12:10655, 2000; Agrestini et al. in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36:9133, 2003).     

High Magnetic Field Annealing Dependent the Morphology and Microstructure of Nanocrystalline Co/Ni Bilayered Films

Co/Ni bilayered films were prepared on ITO glass by electrodeposition assisted with a magnetic field up to 0.5T aligned parallel to the electrode surface. The effect of a high magnetic field annealing up to 12T on morphology and microstructure of the post-deposited films was investigated by field emission scanning electronic microscopy (FE-SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Grain shape and grain boundary in the Co/Ni morphology were modified dramatically when the high magnetic field was applied during the annealing process. Magnetic anisotropy appeared in the films due to the preferential orientation of fcc-CoNi alloy in comparison with a weaker orientation of hcp-Co. High magnetic field annealing favored to form a more homogeneous surface with smaller grain size and lower roughness, compared with the annealed samples obtained in the absence of magnetic field. The influencing mechanisms of high magnetic field annealing on the microstructure evolution in the Co/Ni electrodeposits are interpreted in terms of the overlapping effects: diffusion, recrystallization, grain growth and magnetic domains.     

Enhancement and Correlation of MFM Images: Effect of the Tip on the Magnetic Configuration of Patterned Co Thin Films

A technique of numerical treatment of magnetic force microscopy (MFM) data matrices has been exploited to enhance the quality of raw MFM images of patterned Co thin films obtained by Electron Beam Lithography on RF sputtered 30-nm-thick Co samples. The pattern consists of chains of elliptical cylinders whose major axis is around 2.5 $mu$ m and whose minor axis is around 0.5 $mu$m (aspect ratio 5:1). In this work, a new differential approach is proposed. Two or more MFM images of the same surface area of a soft ferromagnetic material submitted to different magnetic fields $H$ are examined, and the different arrangements of the local magnetization, as emerging from contrast differences in MFM images, are analyzed as functions of $H$. It is shown that this differential approach is able to account for the effect of the MFM tip on the magnetization of the investigated soft magnetic material. The patterned Co samples used to demonstrate this method have been demagnetized before each MFM scan in the plane of the film by applying an alternate field of progressively small absolute value.      

用溅射法合成Nd—Fe—B薄膜中的交换耦合作用的研究

采用ＤＣ对向靶溅射系统制备了Ｎｄ１４Ｆｅ８６－γＢγ薄膜,随着γ值的增大,薄膜中产生了复杂的Ｎｄ－Ｆｅ－Ｂ相,随机分布的软磁相与硬磁相之间存在着ＥｘｃｈａｎｇｅＳｐｒｉｎｇＥｆｆｅｃｔ,并对此进行了分析和讨论,得出了利用这种随机分布结构中的ＥｘｃｈａｎｇｅＳｐｒｉｎｇＥｆｆｅｃｔ是提高Ｎｄ－Ｆｅ－Ｂ薄膜最大磁能积的有效途径。