THE INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURAL AND COMPOSITIONAL FACTORS ON THE REALIZATION OF THE EXCHANGE BIAS EFFECT IN (Cr-Mn)/Fe20Ni80

A. A. Feshchenko; Фещенко А. А.; M. E. Moskalev; Москалев М. Е.; S. V. Severova; Северова С. В.; A. N. Gorkovenko; Горьковенко А. Н.; V. N. Lepalovskij; Лепаловский В. Н.; N. V. Selezneva; Селезнева Н. В.; E. A. Kravtsov; Кравцов Е. А.; V. O. Vas'kovskiy; Васьковский В. О.

doi:10.31857/S0015323023601307

THE INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURAL AND COMPOSITIONAL FACTORS ON THE REALIZATION OF THE EXCHANGE BIAS EFFECT IN (Cr-Mn)/Fe20Ni80

Authors: Feshchenko A.A.¹, Moskalev M.E.¹, Severova S.V.¹, Gorkovenko A.N.¹, Lepalovskij V.N.¹, Selezneva N.V.¹, Kravtsov E.A.¹^,2, Vas'kovskiy V.O.¹^,2
Affiliations:
1. Ural Federal University
2. Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Issue: Vol 124, No 9 (2023)
Pages: 830-837
Section: ЭЛЕКТРИЧЕСКИЕ И МАГНИТНЫЕ СВОЙСТВА
URL: https://rjonco.com/0015-3230/article/view/662984
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0015323023601307
EDN: https://elibrary.ru/YYTUSB
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Abstract

The influence of a number of physical factors on the structural and hysteresis properties of multilayer films (Cr-Mn)/Fe Ni has been studied. By indirect signs, the presence of antiferromagnetism in Cr-Mn layers with a Mn content in the range of 20-40 at.% has been established. It is shown that in such structures, the exchange bias effect can be observed, but only when the thickness of the antiferromagnetic layer is greater than 40 nm. The initial reason for the low "fixing" properties of the Cr-Mn layer is its weak magnetic anisotropy, which is superimposed with instability in the reproduction of the micro-structure. The use of substrate heating during film deposition increased the reproducibility of microstructure parameters and hysteresis characteristics but led to a weakening of the exchange bias effect, apparently due to changes in the structure and composition of the interlayer interface.

Keywords

antiferromagnet, ferromagnetic, layering, texture, thickness, temperature, coercive force, exchange bias field, substrate heating

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