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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 47: Micro- and Nanostructured Magnetic Materials II

MA 47.4: Talk

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 18:00–18:15, EB 202

Magnetization reversal processes in Fe1−xTbx nanodot arrays — •C. Schubert1, P. K. Arekapudi1, B. Hebler1, H. Schletter1, A. Liebig1, F. Radu2, and M. Albrecht11Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany — 2Department Magnetization Dynamics, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany

For spintronic and storage applications rare earth-transition metal alloy films like amorphous ferrimagnetic Fe1−xTbx are suitable materials owing to their high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (7 - 10 Merg/cm3) and low net magnetization (<300 emu/cm3) [1]. In particular, arrays of Fe-Tb nanodots can exhibit manifold magnetic properties interesting for future sensor applications.

We present an investigation of the structural properties and the magnetization reversal process of amorphous Fe1−xTbx nanodots with a diameter of 30 nm, a height of 20 nm, and a period of 60 nm in the composition range from x = 0.19 to 0.23. All depositions were realized by magnetron (co-)sputtering on pre-patterned SiO2/Si(100) substrates, which were fabricated by nano imprint lithography. The magnetization reversal of the nanodots occurs largely via coherent rotation as observed from angular dependent MOKE measurements in a polar geometry and by MFM imaging which shows single domain states.

[1] Y. Mimura et al., J. Appl. Phys. 49, 3 (1978)

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