Hysteresis, microstructure, and magneto‐optical recording in Co/Pt and Co/Pd multilayers
| Autor: | Spruit Johannes H M, H. W. van Kesteren, Bernardus A. J. Jacobs, W. B. Zeper, P. F. Carcia |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Physics. 70:2264-2271 |
| ISSN: | 1089-7550 0021-8979 |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.349419 |
| Popis: | The factors that influence the coercive field Hc and the shape of the magnetic hysteresis loop for Co/Pt multilayers (MLs), applied as a magneto‐optical (MO) recording medium, have been investigated. The hysteresis loop of MLs, made by evaporation of Kr sputtering, became more rectangular when the total film thickness was reduced, i.e., the saturation field Hs decreased and the nucleation field Hn increased. Hs was calculated using a stripe domain model and Hn was modeled assuming that nucleation took place at a field that destabilized small vestigial magnetic domains. Both models assumed that domain walls can move in the ML film and the agreement with experiment was good. However, these models could not explain the hysteresis loops for the MLs deposited on a thick Pt base layer or made at high sputter gas pressure. These MLs showed a more particulate microstructure and the hysteresis loop was sheared, consistent with magnetic reversal by uniform rotation rather than domain‐wall motion. From thermomagneti... |
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