Regensburg 2007 – scientific programme
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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 15: Poster:ThinFilms(1-33),Transp.(34-49),ExchBias(50-56),
Spindynamics(57-70),Micro-nanostr.Mat.(71-82),
Particles/Clust.(83-88), Mag.Imag./Surface(89-96),
Spinelectronics(97-109), Theory/Micromag.(110-116),
Spinstruct/Phasetr.(117-128),Magn.Mat.(129-139),
Aniso.+Measuring(140-145), MolMag.(146-152),
MSMA(153-156)
MA 15.78: Poster
Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 15:00–19:00, Poster A
Structural and magnetic characterization of FePt films deposited onto SiO2 spherical particle arrays — •Christoph Brombacher1, Denys Makarov1, Mireille Maret2, Fabiola Liscio2, Guenter Schatz1, and Manfred Albrecht1 — 1University of Konstanz, Department of Physics, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany — 2Laboratoire de Thermodynamique et Physico-Chimie Métallurgiques, ENSEEG, Saint Martin d’Heres, France
The growth of FePt films at 450∘C on a Pt/Cr buffer layer deposited onto SiO2 spherical particle arrays and for comparison on flat thermally oxidized Si(001) substrates has been studied. The structural properties of the FePt films, such as the orientation and size of the crystalline grains and the degree of L10-type chemical ordering, were investigated by in-situ RHEED and ex-situ XRD. Magnetic characterization was performed by MFM, polar MOKE and SQUID. Increasing the Cr buffer underlayer thickness favors the formation of the FePt chemically ordered L10 phase. An out-of-plane coercivity of the FePt alloy about 4 kOe was thus obtained for a Cr thickness of 50 nm. While the continuous films on oxidized Si(001) substrates show magnetic domain patterns with domain sizes in the range of 50-100 nm, multi-domain states are observed for the FePt alloy grown on the particle arrays. The influence of the Cr underlayer thickness and Pt buffer layer on the magnetic properties of FePt are discussed for various particle arrays and compared to micromagnetic simulations, providing a description of magnetization reversal. Project is funded by the DFG through the Emmy Noether program at the University of Konstanz.