Structural and magnetic properties of SmCo5/Co exchange coupled nanocomposite thin films

Chowdhury, P and Krishnan, M and Barshilia, Harish C and Rao, Sridhara DV and Kumar, Deepak and Shivakumara, C (2013) Structural and magnetic properties of SmCo5/Co exchange coupled nanocomposite thin films. In: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 342 . pp. 74-79.

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Abstract

We investigated the structural and magnetic properties of SmCo5/Co exchange coupled nanocomposite thin films grown by magnetron sputtering from Sm and Co multitargets successively. The growth of the films was carried out at elevated substrate temperature followed by in situ annealing. On Si (100) substrate, X-ray diffraction confirms the formation of textured (110) SmCo5 hard phase, whereas on MgO (110) substrate, the diffraction pattern shows the epitaxial growth of SmCo5 phase with crystalline orientation along 100] direction. Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy reveals the structural transformation from multilayered (Sm/Co) to SmCo5/Co nano-composite films due to high reactivity of Sm at elevated temperature. Transmission electron microscopy indicates the existence of nanocrystalline phase of SmCo5 along with unreacted Co. Observed single phase behavior in magnetic hysteresis measurements indicates well exchange coupling between the soft and the hard phases in these nano-composite films. For samples with samarium layer thickness, t(sm)=3.2 nm and cobalt layer thickness, t(Co)= 11.4 nm, the values of (BH)(max) were obtained as 20.1 MGOe and 12.38 MGOe with H-c value similar to 3.0 kOe grown on MgO and Si substrates, respectively.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords:	Hard Magnetic Thin Film; Nano-Composite; SmCo5; (BH)(max)
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit
Date Deposited:	02 Sep 2013 06:16
Last Modified:	02 Sep 2013 06:16
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/46942

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