1. The effects of annealing temperature and heating rate on Ta/TbFeCo bilayers.
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Ye, Lin-Xiu, Bhatt, Ramesh C., Lee, Ching-Ming, Chang, Shih-Min, and Wu, Te-ho
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PERPENDICULAR magnetic anisotropy , *TANTALUM , *TEMPERATURE effect , *MAGNETIC materials , *TERBIUM , *NONFERROUS metals , *MAGNETIC properties , *RARE earth metal alloys - Abstract
Among various perpendicularly anisotropic magnetic materials, amorphous rare earth-transition metal RE-TM alloys have attracted much interest due to the advantages of tunable magnetic properties and suitable perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) strength. In this study, the magnetic properties of the Ta/TbFeCo/MgO structure with various Tb-contents are investigated under different annealing conditions like heating rate and annealing temperature. The samples were annealed at heating rate from 10 °C/min to 50 °C/min and holding time was varied from 10 min to 30 min with annealing temperatures ranging from 100 to 150 °C. We found that fast heating rate and low holding temperature help to improve PMA and significantly increase the saturation magnetization and squareness of the TbFeCo films. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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