Structural and Ferromagnetic Properties of Sputtered FeCoB/AlN Soft Magnetic Multilayers for GHz Applications
Auteurs | Falub C.V., Hida R., Medu?a M., Zweck J., Michel J.-P., Sibuet H., Schneider D., Bless M., Richter J.H., Rohrmann H. |
Year | 2017-0477 |
Source-Title | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics |
Affiliations | Evatec AG, Trübbach, Switzerland, CEA-LETI/Minatec, Grenoble Cedex 9, France, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany |
Abstract | Owing to their large saturation magnetization and low hysteresis loss, soft magnetic layers based on amorphous alloys currently receive great attention for their potential for gigahertz frequencies applications. In this paper, we studied the structural and magnetic properties of amorphous FeCoB/AlN multilayered thin films with in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy based on the Fe-28%Co-20%B (at. %) alloy, deposited on 8? Si/200 nm-thermal-SiO2 wafers in an industrial, high-throughput magnetron sputtering system. Depending on the process conditions and hardware configuration, the multilayers exhibit structural anisotropy consisting of surface ripples elongated perpendicular to the incident flux direction, which replicate through the entire multilayer stack. By varying the AlN interlayer thickness and sputter process parameters the anisotropy field Hk of these films was tuned in the range of 25-130 Oe, while the coercivity along the magnetic easy axis Hc was kept low, 0.2-0.3 Oe. The ferromagnetic resonance frequency of the multilayered structures was 2 GHz, and the experimental behavior of the magnetization dynamics was described by the classical Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert model. Magnetic domain imaging confirmed a strong coupling between the adjacent FeCoB layers, in agreement with the edge-curling wall model. © 2017 IEEE. |
Author-Keywords | FeCoB, high-frequency permeability, magnetic multilayers, magnetron sputtering, soft magnetic materials |
Index-Keywords | Aluminum compounds, Amorphous alloys, Amorphous films, Anisotropy, Cobalt, Cobalt compounds, Ferromagnetic materials, Ferromagnetism, Film preparation, Iron compounds, Magnetic anisotropy, Magnetic domains, Magnetic materials, Magnetism, Magnetization, Magnetron sputtering, Multilayers, Saturation magnetization, Silica, Silicon wafers, Soft magnetic materials, FeCoB, Ferromagnetic properties, Ferromagnetic resonance frequency, High-frequency permeability, Magnetron sputtering systems, Soft magnetic multilayers, Structural and magnetic properties, Uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, Magnetic multilayers |
ISSN | 189464 |
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