FORMATION OF EPITAXIAL (001) ORDERED FePd FILMS FROM MULTILAYER PRECURSORS

M.R. VISOKAY, B.M. LAIRSON, B.M. CLEMENS, R. SINCLAIR
1995 Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan  
EpitaxiaI, (001) oriented FelPd multilayers were deposited by DC magnetron sputtering onto single crystal (00l) MgO. Annealing resulted in the formation of c-axis oriented ordered intermetallic compounds with the tetragonal Llo crystal structure and the orientation relationship (OOI)FePd 11 (OOI)MgO and [110]FePd 11 [1lO]MgO. Accompanying the formation of this phase was a switch from an in-plane to an out-of-plane magnetic easy axis with a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of 6x10 6 erg/cm 3 .
more » ... he magneto-optic Kerr rotation of ordered FePd is maximum near 1.6 eV and minimum near 2.9 eV, with values of 0.29 and 0.05°, respectively.
doi:10.3379/jmsjmag.19.s1_399 fatcat:emvva3ucarghbdtojrsalyel3a