Enhancement in Magnetic Anisotropy for hcp-Structured Co Alloy Thin Films Through Pt Addition

W. K. Shen; Jack H. Judy; Jian Ping Wang; Anirban Das; Michael Racine; Randy Cheng

doi:10.1109/TMAG.2006.878422

Enhancement in Magnetic Anisotropy for hcp-Structured Co Alloy Thin Films Through Pt Addition

W. K. Shen, Jack H. Judy, Jian Ping Wang, Anirban Das, Michael Racine, Randy Cheng

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The addition effects of Pt in the (0002) Ru underlayer were studied. It was found that the lattice parameter can be tuned as desired through Pt addition in a (0002)-oriented Ru layer. The out-of-plane and in-plane lattice parameter of the RuPt can be increased by 2.3% and 0.44%, respectively. No phase segregation was apparently observed in RuPt films under these process conditions even with a very high Pt content (39%). The RuPt layer thus provides a good template layer to study the Pt addition effects in (0002)-textured hcp Co alloy perpendicular media with a very wide range of Pt content. CoCrPt-SiO₂ films were deposited with a Pt addition level varying from 15% to 40% on an optimally designed RuPt underlayer. The magnetic results showed that H_k, H_c, K_u reached a plateau at about 19%-23% Pt content. The maximum values for H_k, H_c, and K_u are 16.0 kOe, 6.6 kOe, and 3.1 x 10⁶ erg/cm³, respectively.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2945-2947
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume	42
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2006.878422
State	Published - Oct 2006

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Co alloy
CoCrPt-SiO2 perpendicular media
Pt addition
Ru underlayer
RuPt underlayer
X-ray diffraction

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