Structure and Magnetic Propertics of Fe/Zr Multilayers

• Authors: B. Szymański , F. Stobiecki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper we report results of investigation into structure and magnetic properties of as-deposited Fe/Zr multilayers with different wavelength of modulation, λ, and thicknesses ratio of sublayers r = d_{Fe}/d_{Zr}. Three series of samples with r equal to 0.5, 1, 2 and λ from 12 nm to 1.2 nm were prepared by sputtering technique. The samples were studied by X-ray diffraction and torque curve measurements. It is shown that during deposition amorphization process takes place at interfaces. For nominal Fe sublayer thickness d_{Fe} smaller than 2 nm the multilayers are found to be completely amorphous independently of r, and consist of alternating Fe-rich and Fe-poor amorphous sublayers.

Keywords

EN

75.50.Kj; 75.70.-i

Discipline

• 75.70.-i: Magnetic properties of thin films, surfaces, and interfaces(for magnetic properties of nanostructures, see 75.75.-c)
• 75.50.Kj: Amorphous and quasicrystalline magnetic materials

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1994
• Volume: 85
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 455-459

Dates

published

1994-02

Contributors

author

B. Szymański

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

author

F. Stobiecki

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.85.455