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Effects of Annealing Pressures on the Ordering and Microstructures of FePt:Ag Nanocomposite Films
Journal of Magnetics, Volume 18, Number 4, 31 Dec 2013, Pages 412-416
Xiaohong Li * (College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University), Zhaodi Feng (College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University), Yang Li (College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University), Wenpeng Song (State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University), Qian Zhang (State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University), Baoting Liu (College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University)
Abstract

FePt:Ag (100 nm) nanocomposite thin films were prepared on naturally-oxidized Si substrates by dc magnetron sputtering at room temperature. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are used to investigate the effects of annealing pressures on the ordering processes and microstructures of these films. The average sizes for the L10 ordered domains and the FePt grains are reduced to d = 9 nm and D = 13 nm from d = 19 nm and D = 34 nm, respectively, when the annealing pressure is enhanced to 0.6 GPa from room pressure at 873 K. Furthermore, the size distribution is improved into a narrow range. With increasing pressure, the coercivity of L10-FePt:Ag thin films decreases from 15.1 to 7.6 kOe. In the present study, the effects of high pressure on the L10 ordering processes and microstructures of FePt:Ag nanocomposite films were discussed.


 

Keywords: FePt; nanocomposite films; high pressure; ordering
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2013.18.4.412
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