Magnetic properties of sputtered Permalloy/molybdenum multilayers.

Autor: Romera, M., Ranchal, R., Ciudad, D., Maicas, M., Aroca, C.
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Physics; Oct2011, Vol. 110 Issue 8, p083910, 3p
Abstrakt: In this work, we report the magnetic properties of sputtered Permalloy (Py: Ni80Fe20)/molybdenum (Mo) multilayer thin films. We show that it is possible to maintain a low coercivity and a high permeability in thick sputtered Py films when reducing the out-of-plane component of the anisotropy by inserting thin film spacers of a non-magnetic material like Mo. For these kind of multilayers, we have found coercivities which are close to those for single layer films with no out-of-plane anisotropy. The coercivity is also dependent on the number of layers exhibiting a minimum value when each single Py layer has a thickness close to the transition thickness between Neel and Bloch domain walls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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