• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.56-60
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• 1992

광자기 디스크의 자기 및 기록특성에 SiN 하지층이 미치는 영향에 대해서 연구하였다. PC기관에 4층구조막의 디스크를 DC 마그네트론 스퍼터링에 의해 성막하였으며 스퍼터링 압력이 증가함에 따라 SiN 박막의 표면이 거칠어 지고 주상형성장이 현저하게 나타났다. SiN 하지층의 비세조직의 변화는 자기기록막의 보자력, 수직이방성 등에는 영향을 미치지 않았지만 지구의 형 성과정은 SiN 하지층의 조직에 따라 민감하게 변화하였다. SiN 하지층이 Porous 할수록 광자기 디스크의 기록이 이루어 지는 임계파우워 값이 작고, 또한 자구의 형성이 이루어 지는 임계외자 계의 크기도 넓은 범위에서 나타났다. 광자기 디스크의 기록특성을 증대시키기 위해서는 자기기 록막의 성능과는 관계없이 치밀하고 표면이 평할한 SiN 하지층을 증착하는 것이 필수적임을 관 찰하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.169-177
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• 1992

자기광효과가 큰 수직자기 이방성을 가진 자성박막에 레이저광으로 정보를 기록하고 판독하는 광자기 기록기술(Magneto-optical recording technology)은 1950년대 후반부터 연구가 되기 시작하여, 현재는 5.25" 디스크 에 400~600 Mbytes의 저장 능력, access time이 30~200 nm, data transfer rate이 1.2~8 Mbits/s 수준의 제품이 상품 화되고 있다. 광자기 기록은 자기기록방식의 무제한 반복기록의 장점과 광기록방식의 비접촉 기록, 고집적 능력, 디스크 제거기 능의 제 장점이 병합된 기술로서 향후 정보저장의 새로운 기술로서 그 자리를 굳혀갈 것으로 예상된다. 본 해설에서는 광자기 기록매체를 중심으로 하여 광자기 기록기술의 기록 및 판독원리, 광자기 기록재질, 광자기 디스크 SNR, direct overwriting의 제방법, 차세대를 향한 고밀도화의 시도에 대해 각각 서술한 후 결론을 맺고저 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.315-323
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• 1995

표면, 계면, 박막 계에 대한 자성 연구는 실용적인 응용가능성과 고체 내부와는 다른 특이한 현상으로 인해 지난 십여년간에 걸쳐 실험적으로나 이론적으로 많은 관심을 끌 어 왔으며 고체물리나 재료과학 분야에서 그 중요성이 증대되고 있다. 표면에서 규칙 적인 격자가 끊어지거나 원자 조성이 달라짐으로 인해 표면, 계면, 박막계에서는 고체 내부와는 다른 독특한 현상이 생긴다. 예를 들어 전자 상태가 국재화되고 자기 모멘트 가 증가되며 또 수직 자기 이방성이 생기거나 복잡한 자기 질서가 생기기도 한다. 이 러한 계에 대한 이론적 연구의 일차적 목적은 이들의 본성을 미시적인 차원에서 근본 적으로 이해하는데 있다고 할 수 있다. 최근에 들어 실험기술의 발전으로 인해 새로운 구조나 조성을 갖는 인공적인 물질의 제작이 가능하게 되었으며, 이와 병행하여 이들 의 특성을 실험적으로 측정할 수 있는 기술도 동시에 발전하여 왔다. 따라서 이론적 연구 또한 이미 얻어진 실험적 결과를 설명하는 데 그치지 않고 아직 실험적으로 행해 지지 않은 새로운 물질의 특성을 예측하는 중요한 역할을 할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.298-304
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• 1993

The effects of the substrate temperature and the Pd underlayer on the structure and the magnetic properties of Pd/Co multilayer films prepared by the thermal evaporation were studied. As the substrate temperature increases up to $150^{\circ}C$, the crystallinity of sublayers, (111) texture and the interface sharpness of Pd/Co multilayers were improved due to the enhanced mobility of adatoms. As results of that, the perpendicular and surface anisotropy energies were increased but the coercivity was decreased because the pinning sites of domain wall decreased due to the grain growth. The grain size of the multilayers increased with Pd underlyer thickness. Thermal degradation was enhanced at above $200^{\circ}C$ due to interdiffusion at the Pd/Co interface. The intensity of the main diffraction peak rapidly decayed in the initial stage of aging and then decreased slowly. The rapid change of the intensity in the initial stage was speculated to be due to the structural relaxation phenomena and the later stage change was due to the interdiffusion. The activation energy for the interdiffusion in Pd4/Co1 multilayers was 14.9 KCal/mole.K.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.308-313
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• 2005

The effects of molecular environments on photoisomerization of an azobenzene group were investigated using In-situ UV/Vis spectroscopy and optical anisotropy measurement technique. The reversible and repeatable photoisomeritation reactions of azobenzene were observed by irradiating the film containing 4-hydroxyazobenzene and by measuring absorption intensities of the characteristic bands of trans and cis isomers simultaneously. When the self-assembled monolayer with azobenzene groups was used as an alignment layer for a liquid crystal cell, the homeotropic alignment was induced due to their compact packing structures of azobenfene groups along the vertical direction of the substrate. By irradiating UV light on this cell, the trans-azobenzene groups change to cis-isomers through the photoisonlerieation and then resulting in the planar alignment of liquid crystal molecules.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.313-318
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• 1994

We have investigated the effects of deposition angle on magnetic and magneto-optic properties in Co/Pt multilayer thin films. which were prepared bye-beam evaporation on tilted substrates. with varying tilt angle from $0^{\circ}$ to $60^{\circ}$. The structure of the specimens was examined by x-ray diffractometer and scanning electron microscope. and the magnetic and magneto-optical properties were measured by VSM, torque magnetometer, and Kerr loop tracer. X-ray diffractometry revealed that all of the specimens had multilayer structure and growth orientation of column followed the tangent rule but the crystallograpic orientation, <111>, was slightly deviated from the substrate normal even though the deposition angle was increased up to $60^{\circ}$. A decrement of the magnetization and Kerr angle with the deposition angle was related with that of the film density due to increasing porosity. The perpendicular mag¬netic anisotropy was also decreased with increasing the deposition angle.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.142-146
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• 2008

The angular dependence of the exchange bias($H_{ex}$) and coercivity($H_c$) in multilayer $[Pt/Co]_N-IrMn$ with applied measuring field rotated toward in-plane at angle $\theta$ from perpendicular-to-plane, has been measured. Multilayer films consisting of $Si/SiO_2/Ta(50)/Pt(4)/[Pt(15)/Co(t_{Co})]_N/IrMn(50)/Ta(50)(in\;{\AA})$ were prepared by magnetron sputtering under typical base pressure below $2{\times}10^{-8}$ Torr at room temperature. Magnetization measurements were performed on a vibrating sample magnetometer and extraordinary Hall voltage measurement systems after cooling from 550 K under a field of 2 kOe applied along the perpendicular to film direction. The hysteresis loop shifts from the origin not only along the field axis but also along the magnetization axis. $H_{ex}$ and $H_c$ show a $1/cos{\theta}$ and $1/|cos{\theta}|$ dependence on the angle($\theta$) between the applied measuring field and the perpendicular-film direction, respectively. This $1/cos{\theta}$ dependence can be accounted for by considering the angular dependence of strong out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy introduced during the field cooling.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.176-181
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• 2003

The magnetic domain walls at the edges of a large patterned and exchanged-biased NiO(10-60 nm)/NiFe(10 nm) bilayers and their motions with applied field were investigated by magnetic force microscopy. Three kinds of domain walls, namely, head-to-head zig-zag and tail-to-tail zig-zag Bloch walls and straight Neel walls were found at specific edges of the unidirectional biased NiO(30 nm)/NiFe(10 nm) bilayer having the exchange biasing field (H$\sub$ex/) of 21 Oe. No walls were observed for the strong exchange-biased bilayer (60 nm NiO, H$\sub$ex/ = 75 Oe), while the amplitude of the zig-zag domain increased with decreasing exchange biasing. This may be explained by mutual restraint between H$\sub$ex/ and the demagnetization field of edge. We similarly investigated the magnetization reversal process, the subsequent motion of the walls and identified the pinning and nucleation sites during reversal.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.122-125
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• 2013

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) is the phenomenon of magnetic thin film which is preferentially magnetized in a direction perpendicular to the film's plane. Amorphous multilayer with PMA has been studied as the good candidate to realization of high density STT-MRAM (Spin Transfer Torque-Magnetic Random Access Memory). The current issue of high density STT-MRAM is a decrease in the switching current of the device and an application of amorphous materials which are most suitable devices. The amorphous ferromagnetic material has low saturated magnetization, low coercivity and high thermal stability. In this study, we presented amorphous ferromagnetic multilayer that consists of an amorphous alloy CoSiB and a nonmagnetic material Pd. We investigated the change of PMA of the $[CoSiB\;t_{CoSiB}/Pd\;1.3nm]_5$ multilayer ($t_{CoSiB}$ = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 nm, and $t_{Pd}$ = 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 nm) and $[CoSiB\;0.3nm/Pd\;1.3nm]_n$ multilayer (n = 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13). This multilayer is measured by VSM (Vibrating Sample Magnetometer) and analyzed magnetic properties like a coercivity ($H_c$) and a magnetization ($M_s$). The coercivity in the $[CoSiB\;t_{CoSiB}\;nm/Pd\;1.3nm]_5$ multi-layers increased with increasing $t_{CoSiB}$ to reach a maximum at $t_{CoSiB}$ = 0.3 nm and then decreased for $t_{CoSiB}$ > 0.3 nm. The lowest saturated magnetization of $0.26emu/cm^3$ was obtained in the $[CoSiB\;0.3nm/Pd\;1.3nm]_3$ multilayer whereas the highest coercivity of 0.26 kOe was obtained in the $[CoSiB\;0.3nm/Pd\;1.3nm]_5$ mutilayer. Additional Pd layers did not contribute to the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The single domain structure evolved in to a striped multi-domain structure as the bilayer repetition number n was increased above 7 after which (n > 7) the hysteresis loops had a bow-tie shapes.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.229-233
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• 1993

The effects of differential partial pressures of oxygen during sputtering on the magnetic and recording characteristics of magneto-optical disks were investigated. Different flows of oxygen were deliberately introduced into the sputtering chamber to have a variety of partial pressures of oxygen during sputtering. A residual gas analyzer was employed to monitor the oxygen peak before, during, and after sputtering and to estimate the reacted oxygen amount. Most of the oxygen introduced into the chamaber was reacted during sputtering. As the partial pressure of oxygen increased, the oxygen content of the TbFeCoCr film increased also. The oxygen appeared to be bound as Tb-O, effectively decreasing the magnetically active Tb content of the film The coercivity decreased but the squareness of the Kerr hysteresis loops was still excellent. The perpendicular anisotropy was not significantly affected by oxygen amount. The carrier-to-noise ratio, includi!1g the write power sensitivity and bias field sensitivity did not change too much with oxygen content in the film The disks sputtered with oxygen showed better bias field sensitivity with lower write power threshold than the disk sputtered without oxygen, due to high demagnetization during domain formation. No significant degradation of coercivity for the disk sputtered oxygen was observed during an accelerated aging test.