Soft magnetic granular material Co-Fe-Hf-O for micromagnetic device applications

Liangliang LI, Ankur M. CRAWFORD, Shan X. WANG, Ann F. MARSHALL, Ming MAO, Thomas SCHNEIDER, Randhir BUBBER

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Abstract

A granular magnetic material, Co-Fe-Hf-O, has been developed-using dc pulsed magnetron reactive sputtering. The deposition rate is as high as 1.3 nm/s. The electrical and magnetic properties of Co-Fe-Hf-O film can be tuned by changing O2 during deposition. A highly resistive, magnetically soft film has been achieved in a small range of the O2 (Ar+ O2) gas flow ratio. The origin of the dependence of magnetic and electrical properties of this material is studied and explained by monitoring the evolution of the film microstructure, using x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number10F907
JournalJournal of Applied Physics
Volume97
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2005
Externally publishedYes

Funding

The work at Stanford University was supported in part by Intel Corp. and National Science Foundation.

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