Polycrystalline Sm(Co,Cu)5 films with perpendicular anisotropy grown on (0 0 0 2) Ru(Cr)

Xiaoqi Liu, Haibao Zhao, Yukiko Kubota, Jian Ping Wang

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Abstract

Polycrystalline Sm-Co-Cu films with SmCo5 phase and (0 0 0 1) texture using a dc magnetron sputtering process were successfully fabricated directly on an (0 0 0 2) Ru(Cr) underlayer on heated glass substrates at 350 °C. The mean grain size of the Sm(CoCu)5 layer is 17 nm, the smallest ever reported on SmCo5 film with perpendicular anisotropy. Strong exchange coupling between grains, as indicated by the coercivity squareness, was found in the obtained Sm(Co,Cu)5 films. An estimated perpendicular magnetic anisotropy constant, as high as 1.4 × 10 8 erg cm-3, was achieved on these films. An 'unusually' high perpendicular coercivity (11 kOe) was found on these exchange-coupled polycrystalline Sm(Co,Cu)5 films. This was explained by a pinning-site model which was supported by the measurement of the coercivity angular dependence.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number232002
JournalJournal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Volume41
Issue number23
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2008

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