Paper MI+EN+BI-TuA7
Anomalous Magneto Transport in Amorphous TbFeCo Film with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 4:00 pm, Room 006
Session: |
Fundamental Problems in Magnetism |
Presenter: |
N. Anuniwat, University of Virginia |
Authors: |
N. Anuniwat, University of Virginia M. Ding, University of Virginia J. Poon, University of Virginia S.A. Wolf, University of Virginia J.W. Lu, University of Virginia |
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TbFeCo has attracted some interests because of its high perpendicular anisotropy and tunable magnetic properties for nanomagnetic and spintronics application. Due to the fact that electronic device is getting smaller, fundamental understanding of size and geometry dependent is crucial . In this study, we report a strong size dependence of the coercive field in 15 - 100nm thick Tb30Fe63.5Co6.5 films with MgO capping. Magneto Optical Kerr effect (MOKE) and Vibrating Sample Magnetometer are performed on unpatterned films. The films exhibited strong PMA characteristics. The films were then fabricated into Hall bars with 10 μm, 50 μm, 100 μm and 500 μm in width. From anomalous Hall effect (AHE), HC was determined for these patterned films. We observed coercivity enhancement as the width of the hall bar decreases (up to 200% at room temperature). The temperature dependent of the coercivity is also studied. There exhibits the local minimum as the temperature change from 50 - 300K. The correlation between HCmin and dimensions of the hall bar are discussed. The magnetic domain structures and surface morphology analysis were performed using magnetic force microscopy and atomic force microscopy respectively. The variation in domain sizes , structures for different hall bars as well as possible origins of the coercivity enhancement are also discussed.