Abstract
An appropriate writing field is very important for magnetic storage application of L10 FePt nanocomposite thin films. However, the applications of pure L10 FePt are limited due to its large coercivity. In this paper, the ratios of L10 and non-L10 phase FePt alloy nanoparticles in FePt/MgO (100) nanocomposite thin films were successfully tuned by pulsed laser deposition method. By adjusting the pulsed laser energy density from 3 to 7 J/cm2, the ordering parameter initially increased, and then decreased. The highest ordering parameter of 0.9 was obtained at the pulsed laser energy density of 5 J/cm2. At this maximum value, the sample had the least amount of the soft magnetic phase of almost 0%, as analyzed by a magnetic susceptibility study. The saturation magnetization decreased with the increase in the content of soft magnetic phase. Therefore, the magnetic properties of FePt nanocomposite thin films can be controlled, which would be beneficial for the magnetic applications of these thin films.
Highlights
The face-centered-tetragonal L10 -FePt alloy with large magnetocrystalline anisotropy content was regarded as the most promising material for ultra high density perpendicular magnetic recording [1,2]
pulse laser deposition (PLD) can be developed as a way to fabricate FePt alloy with different component proportions
FePt/MgO nanocomposite films were grown on MgO (100) substrate by pulsed laser deposition (PLD), which equipped a KrF excimer laser (Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (Hefei, China)) with a wavelength of 248 nm and pulse width of 25 ns
Summary
Jian Yu 1 , Tingting Xiao 1 , Xuemin Wang 1 , Xiuwen Zhou 1 , Xinming Wang 1 , Liping Peng 1 , Yan Zhao 1 , Jin Wang 2 , Jie Chen 1 , Hongbu Yin 1 and Weidong Wu 1,3,4, *. Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. Received: 5 December 2018; Accepted: 27 December 2018; Published: 3 January 2019
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