Abstract
The effect of ion irradiation on magnetic properties of films of the ferromagnetic CoPt alloy fabricated by electron-beam evaporation has been studied. It is found that the coercive force decreases and the lateral component of the easy-magnetization axis increases as the He+ ion fluence increases from 1 × 1013 to 1 × 1016 cm–2. It is shown by magnetic-force microscopy and the Mandelstam–Brillouin spectroscopy that the formation of isolated circle domains which are magnetic skirmions in the CoPt layer is activated at certain ion-irradiation fluence (3 × 1014 cm–2).
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