Chowdhury, P and Kulkarni, PD and Krishnan, M and Barshilia, Harish C and Sagdeo, A and Rai, SK and Lodha, GS and Sridhara Rao, DV (2012) Effect of coherent to incoherent structural transition on magnetic anisotropy in Co/Pt multilayers. Journal of Applied Physics, 112. 023912. ISSN 0021-8979
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The crystallographic structure and magnetic anisotropy have been investigated in Co/Pt multilayers deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering on two different buffer layers, Ta and Pt. Detail theoretical and experimental investigations reveal the presence of three effects: magneto-elastic, interface and shape anisotropies, and their competition results in three distinct regions based on the Co layer thickness (tCo). In the region I, with tCo< 6 Å, the coherent lattice strain modifies the volume anisotropy through magneto-elastic contribution and it leads to overall positive volume anisotropy energy. With further increase in tCo, lattice mismatch initiates and this results in a decrease in magneto-elastic effect and it enhances the interface anisotropy. The presence of both diminished magneto-elastic effect and enhanced interface anisotropy results in an intermediate region (region II) with negative volume anisotropy energy which is relatively wider (6 Å<tCo< 12 Å) for multilayer stacks with Ta underlayer. In the region III, with tCo> 12 Å, the magneto-elastic effect emerges as an interface phenomena and the shape anisotropy becomes dominant.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | GENERAL > General |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Harish C. Barshilia |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2013 05:26 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2015 05:45 |
| URI: | http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/id/eprint/11484 |
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