We carry out ab initio calculations which demonstrate the importance of the non-spin-conserving part of the spin-orbit interaction for the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity of ordered FePt alloys. The impact of this interaction is strongly reduced if Pt is replaced by the lighter isoelectronic element Pd. An analysis of the interband transitions responsible for the anomalous velocity reveal...

We present the results on highly anisotropic oriented face-centered-tetragonal ordered equiatomic FePt thin films embedded in a C matrix prepared by cosputtering technique on MgO ~100! substrates at 400 °C. We have found that doping of C in FePt alloy films is an effective and appropriate way to control the L10 ordering and growth of grain size down to 4 nm. Room-temperature magnetic measuremen...

There remains much interest in the development of FePt for magnetic recording media. For almost a decade we have performed extensive studies of FePt multilayers and nanoparticles, especially epitactic growth on layers of MgO and the phase transformation from a disordered solid solution to the L10 ordered structure that exhibits attractive magnetic properties [1-7]. Many studies incorporated ato...

We determine the composition of intrinsic as well as extrinsic contributions to the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in the isoelectronic L1_{0} FePd and FePt alloys. We show that the AHE signal in our 30 nm thick epitaxially deposited films of FePd is mainly due to an extrinsic side jump, while in the epitaxial FePt films of the same thickness and degree of order the intrinsic contribution is domin...

We analyze the origin of the electrical resistance arising in domain walls of perpendicularly magnetized materials by considering a superposition of anisotropic magnetoresistance and the resistance implied by the magnetization chirality. The domain wall profiles of L1(0)-FePd and L1(0)-FePt are determined by micromagnetic simulations based on which we perform first-principles calculations to qu...

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An investigation of the orientation and temperature dependence of domain wall properties in FePt is presented. The authors use a microscopic, atomic model for the magnetic interactions within an effective, classical spin Hamiltonian constructed on the basis of spin-density functional calculations. They find a significant dependence of the domain wall width as well as the domain wall energy on t...

Synthesis of monodisperse iron-platinum (FePt) nanoparticles by reduction of platinum acetylacetonate and decomposition of iron pentacarbonyl in the presence of oleic acid and oleyl amine stabilizers is reported. The FePt particle composition is readily controlled, and the size is tunable from 3- to 10-nanometer diameter with a standard deviation of less than 5%. These nanoparticles self-assemb...

A technique based on x-ray diffraction (XRD) is introduced to understand the variation of the grain-to-grain ordering in FePt recording media. We classify the possible ways that the grains may be ordered into three types: homogeneous ordering, inhomogeneous ordering, and bipolar ordering. We study the possible impact of each type of ordering on the XRD spectra in terms of the relative angular p...

An efficient tight-binding model including magnetism and spin-orbit interactions is extended to metallic alloys. The tight-binding parameters are determined from a fit to bulk ab initio calculations of each metal and rules are given to obtain the heteroatomic parameters. The spin and orbital magnetic moments as well as the magneto-crystalline anisotropy are derived. We apply this method to bulk...