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A Study of Magnetic Field Annealing on Microstructures and Magnetic Properties of Nanocomposite Sm-Co/Co Films

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 7, Number 2, 30 Jun 2002, Pages 45-50
Choong-Jin Yang* (Electromagnetic Materials Laboratory, Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)), Cai-Yin You(Institute of Metal Research, Academia Sinica, Electromagnetic Materials Laboratory, Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)), Z.D. Zhang(Institute of Metal Research, Academia Sinica), Kyung Soo Kim(Electromagnetic Materials Laboratory, Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)), Jong Soo Han(Electromagnetic Materials Laboratory, Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST))
Abstract
A magnetic field annealing is firstly used for nanostructured Sm-Co/Co films, prepared by magnetron sputtering method. The effects of magnetic field annealing on single-layered Sm-Co films are different from those on multi-layered Sm-Co/Co films. A detailed analysis of microstructures and magnetic properties is made by means of HRTEM, Auger electron spectroscopy, XRD and Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS). From magnetic properties and microstructure analysis, it was confirmed that these differences originate from the effects of magnetic field annealing on crystallization behavior of the films. The relationship between magnetic properties and microstructures explains a different demagnetization process of single-layered and multilayered films. For the single-layered Sm-Co films, magnetic-field-annealing makes the main phases change from CaCu5 to Zn2Th17 structure, resulting in a decrease of coercivity. The results show that the magnetic-field-annealing is useful to improve the properties of nanostructured Sm-Co(30 nm)/Co(10 nm) films, which ascribe to improving the pinning effectiveness in coercivity mechanism and decreasing the magnetostatic interaction of films. A very high coercivity about 0.7 T was obtained from nanoscaled multi-layered Sm-Co(30 nm)-/Co(10 nm) films.
Keywords: Multilayers; Magnetic field annealing; Auger electron spectra; Coercivity
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