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Amorphous Cr-Ti Texture-inducing Layer Underlying (002) Textured bcc-Cr alloy Seed Layer for FePt-C Based Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording Media
Journal of Magnetics, Volume 21, Number 1, 31 Mar 2016, Pages 35-39
Seong-Jae Jeon * (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University), Shintaro Hinata (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University), Shin Saito (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University)
Abstract

Cr100-xTix amorphous texture-inducing layers (TIL) were investigated to realize highly (002) oriented L10 FePt-C granular films through hetero-epitaxial growth on the (002) textured bcc-Cr80Mn20 seed layer (bcc-SL). Asdeposited TILs showed the amorphous phase in Ti content of 30 ≤ x (at%) ≤ 75. Particularly, films with 40 ≤ x ≤ 60 kept the amorphous phase against the heat treatment over 600 oC. It was found that preference of the crystallographic texture for bcc-SLs is directly affected by the structural phase of TILs. (002) crystallographic texture was realized in bcc-SLs deposited on the amorphous TILs (40 ≤ x ≤ 70), whereas (110) texture was formed in bcc-SLs overlying on crystalline TILs (x < 30 and x > 70). Correlation between the angular distribution of (002) crystal orientation of bcc-SL evaluated by full width at half maximum of (002) diffraction (FWHM) and a grain diameter of bcc-SL indicated that while the development of the lateral growth for bcc-SL grain reduces FWHM, crystallization of amorphous TILs hinders FWHM. L10 FePt-C granular films were fabricated under the substrate heating process over 600 oC with having different FWHM of bcc-SL. Hysteresis loops showed that squareness (Mr/Ms) of the films increased from 0.87 to 0.95 when FWHM of bcc-SL decreased from 13.7 o to 3.8 o. It is suggested that the reduction of (002) FWHM affects to the overlying MgO film as well as FePt-C granular film by means of the hetero-epitaxial growth.


 

Keywords: amorphous Cr-Ti texture inducing layer; bcc-Cr alloy seed layer; lateral grain growth; hetero-epitaxial growth; L10 FePt-C granular film; angular distribution of c-axis
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2016.21.1.035
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