Magnetic multilayers on porous anodized alumina for percolated perpendicular media

Co ∕ Pt multilayers deposited on anodized alumina substrates are introduced as percolated perpendicular media. The pores act as pinning sites due to variations of thickness and anisotropy direction around the perimeters. Coercivity, domain size, and switching field can be engineered by controlling p...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied physics letters 2007-09, Vol.91 (13), p.132505-132505-3
Hauptverfasser: Rahman, M. Tofizur, Shams, Nazmun Nahar, Wu, Yun-Chung, Lai, Chih-Huang, Suess, Dieter
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Co ∕ Pt multilayers deposited on anodized alumina substrates are introduced as percolated perpendicular media. The pores act as pinning sites due to variations of thickness and anisotropy direction around the perimeters. Coercivity, domain size, and switching field can be engineered by controlling pore density. The media exhibit strong perpendicular anisotropy and the switching field remains unchanged at its minimum up to an angular deviation of 50° from the easy axis. A better tolerance of switching-field distributions can thus be achieved, which may help to achieve a high signal-to-noise ratio. The thermal stability of the proposed media is investigated by micromagnetic simulations.
ISSN:0003-6951
1077-3118
DOI:10.1063/1.2790788