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Publication
Journal of Applied Physics
Paper
Magnetization and magnetic anisotropy in evaporated GdCo amorphous films
Abstract
Saturation magnetizations and magnetic anisotropy constants were determined for a series of amorphous GdCo films prepared by thermal evaporation. The films covered the composition range from Gd0.05Co0.95 to Gd0.40Co0.60 and were studied by means of ferromagnetic resonance and a force balance magnetometer. The films, in contrast to those prepared by sputtering, had a hard perpendicular direction of magnetization when Co was less than 91 at.%, and easy and moderate directions within the plane of the film. The anisotropy constant can be expressed in terms of sublattice magnetizations by Ku=0.660MCo2 +2.218M CoMGd+0.097MGd2. The results are explained based on a pair-ordering mechanism. The composition and temperature dependence of saturation magnetization is essentially the same in evaporated and sputtered films.