Tunable magnetic textures and excitation modes in FePt multilayer films

Magnetic hardening in FePt nanostructured films

Quantitative model for tunable microstructure in magnetic FePt thin films by pulsed laser deposition

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is employed to fabricate FePt L10 thin films from elemental targets. Dramatic structure variations are obtained by varying the laser frequency while keeping the thickness of the films constant. A new theoretical model based on the mean field approach is proposed, which quantitatively describes the structural changes obtained experimentally. The experiment and the m...

Nanostructured FePt films for magnetic media applications

Smaller, faster, denser and cheaper magnetic disk drives are demanded for information storage using magnetic media. Increase in high areal density in magnetic recording requires small bit cells with very small grain size. The reduction of bit cell volume and grain size will eventually be constrained by the undesirable thermal instability of magnetization due to the superparamagnetic effect, thu...

Magnetic Properties of Nanostructured CoPt and FePt Thin Films

Polycrystalline MgO underlayer films lead to different preferred orientations of 10 CoPt and FePt films after the annealing process, depending on the thickness of 10 films. 10 films with a thickness greater than 20 nm revealed mostly 10 [100] fiber texture and consequently in-plane anisotropy as determined by magnetic hysteresis. Strong perpendicular anisotropy due to the 10 [001] fiber texture...

Magnetic hardening in ultrafine FePt nanoparticle assembled films

Ultrafine FePt nanoparticles have been synthesized via a novel chemical solution synthesis route. Without using a reducing agent, the stoichiometric FePt nanoparticles were produced by the decomposition of iron acetylacetonate and platinum acetylacetonate in octyl ether in the presence of oleic acid and oleyl amine as the surfactants. The particle size was found to be around 2 nm with a narrow ...