학술논문

Formation of a Body-Centered Tetragonal Structure With High Magnetic Anisotropy and Coercivity in Fe–Co–V Films With High C Contents
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics IEEE Trans. Magn. Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on. 59(11):1-5 Nov, 2023
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Films
Substrates
Iron
Soft magnetic materials
Saturation magnetization
Magnetic films
Lattices
Ferromagnetic materials
lattice distortion
magnetic anisotropy
magnetic films
Language
ISSN
0018-9464
1941-0069
Abstract
A high amount of C (0–20 at.%) was added to Fe–Co–V films via sputtering to transform their body-centered cubic (bcc) structure to a face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice through a body-centered tetragonal (bct) structure. The Fe–Co films without V retained a bcc or bct crystal structure with an axial ratio ( $c/a)$ of 1.03 even at high C contents close to 20 at.%. Meanwhile, in the Fe–Co films containing 10 at.% of V, a bct structure with $1.06\le c/a \le1.30$ was formed after adding 5–12 at.% of C, which was subsequently transformed to an fcc structure with increasing C content. The saturation magnetization of the Fe–Co–V–C films with the bct structure was approximately 1000–1500 kA/m, and their uniaxial magnetic anisotropy constant ( $K_{\mathrm {u}}$ ) was approximately 106 J/m3 (the films with high Fe contents exhibited high $K_{\mathrm {u}}$ values). The bct Fe–Co–V–C films with high $K_{\mathrm {u}}$ were microfabricated into nanodot array patterns via electron beam lithography. The coercivity of the pattern increased with decreasing dot size, and that of the pattern with a dot diameter of 85 nm was nearly an order of magnitude higher than that of the continuous film.