Modification of Magnetic Properties of a CoPt Alloy by Ion Irradiation


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Abstract

The effect of ion irradiation on magnetic properties of films of the ferromagnetic CoPt alloy fabricated by electron-beam evaporation has been studied. It is found that the coercive force decreases and the lateral component of the easy-magnetization axis increases as the He+ ion fluence increases from 1 × 1013 to 1 × 1016 cm–2. It is shown by magnetic-force microscopy and the Mandelstam–Brillouin spectroscopy that the formation of isolated circle domains which are magnetic skirmions in the CoPt layer is activated at certain ion-irradiation fluence (3 × 1014 cm–2).

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I. L. Kalentyeva

Research Institute for Physics and Technology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

O. V. Vikhrova

Research Institute for Physics and Technology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

Yu. A. Danilov

Research Institute for Physics and Technology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

M. V. Dorokhin

Research Institute for Physics and Technology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

Yu. A. Dudin

Research Institute for Physics and Technology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

A. V. Zdoroveyshchev

Research Institute for Physics and Technology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

A. V. Kudrin

Research Institute for Physics and Technology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

M. P. Temiryazeva

Fryazino Branch, Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio-Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Fryazino, Moscow oblast, 141190

A. G. Temiryazev

Fryazino Branch, Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio-Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Fryazino, Moscow oblast, 141190

S. A. Nikitov

Metamaterials Laboratory, National Research Chernyshevsky Saratov State University; Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio-Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Saratov, 410012; Moscow, 125009; Dolgoprudny, Moscow oblast, 141701

A. V. Sadovnikov

Metamaterials Laboratory, National Research Chernyshevsky Saratov State University; Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio-Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vikhrova@nifti.unn.ru
Russian Federation, Saratov, 410012; Moscow, 125009

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