Abstract
Fe1.2Co films with various thicknesses were prepared on glass substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The Fe1.2Co crystal structure exhibited a preferred orientation in the <110> direction. Also, we found that changing the film thickness affected its magnetic properties and the formation of its reversed nucleus. By measuring magnetism–temperature (M–T) curves under applied field cooling (FC) and zero-field cooling (ZFC), we found that the mechanism of the formation and growth of the reversed nucleus played a main role in blocking the motion of domain walls: the mechanism was competition between a ferromagnetic phase (FM) and an anti-ferromagnetic phase (AFM) at 10–300K. Moreover, we found that the reversed nucleus blocked the motion of magnetic domains more at 10K than at 300K. We suggest that the reversed nucleus affects the magnetism more at low temperatures, which causes the coercivity to be higher at low temperature than at room temperature. These results will help us to understand the magnetic properties and temperature characteristics of FeCo thin films.
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