Chin. Phys. Lett.  2009, Vol. 26 Issue (9): 097503    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/26/9/097503
CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES |
Crystal Structure and Magnetic Properties of Sm2Fe17Nδ Thin Films Deposited on Si (100) Substrates
XUE Gang, PENG Long, ZHANG Huai-Wu
State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054
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XUE Gang, PENG Long, ZHANG Huai-Wu 2009 Chin. Phys. Lett. 26 097503
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Abstract This work focuses on the crystal structure and magnetic properties of the hard magnetic Sm2Fe17Nδ films prepared by dc magnetron sputtering and the subsequent nitriding process. The XRD, EDS, M-H and M-T data show that N enters the cell structure and the films with the single Th2Zn17 phase are obtained when the nitriding temperature varies from 300 to 400°C, thus the maximum value of the coercivity HC reaches 2561.7Oe. However, the Sm2Fe17 phase decomposes to the SmN nonmagnetic phase and the α-Fe soft magnetic phase with further increasing nitriding temperature, which corresponds to the decreasing HC. Furthermore, the easy magnetization direction (EMD) is found to locate randomly in the film plane. This texture can not give an excellent MR/MS higher than the Stoner-Wohlfarth limitation (MR/MS=0.5), which agrees well with the observed low MR/MS (0.58). It is suggested that the magnetization reversal process is dominated by the nucleation mechanism according to the initial magnetization curve and the dependence of HC on the field H.
Keywords: 75.50.Gg      75.70.Ak      81.15.Cd     
Received: 27 March 2009      Published: 28 August 2009
PACS:  75.50.Gg (Ferrimagnetics)  
  75.70.Ak (Magnetic properties of monolayers and thin films)  
  81.15.Cd (Deposition by sputtering)  
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