• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2001

Fe-Co-Ni particles with an average size of 45 and 135 nm are characterized in terms of magnetic phase transformation and magnetic properties at room temperature. BCC structure of Fe-Co-Ni spherical particles can be synthesized from Fe-Co-Ni-Al-Cu precursor films by heating at 600-80$0^{\circ}C$ for the phase separation of Fe-Co rich Fe-Co-Ni particles, followed by a post heating at $600^{\circ}C$ for 5 hours. The average size of nanoparticles was directly determined by the thickness of precursor films. Exchange interactive hysteresis was observed for the nano-composite (Fe-Co-Ni)+(Fe-Ni-Al) films resulting from the short exchange interface between ferromagnetic Fe-Co-Ni particles surrounded by almost papramagnetic Ni-Al-Fe matrix. Arraying the isolated Fe-Co-Ni nano-particles in a random arrangement on $Al_2O_3$substrate the particle assembly showed a behavior of dipole interactive ferromagnetic clusters depending on their volume and inter-particle distance.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.304-304
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• 2011

We investigated the effect of different spin direction of anti-ferromagnetic layer on the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic layer in Fe-NiO and Fe-CoO bi-layer systems. For Fe-NiO system, we prepared the clean MgO(001) surface half-covered with 20 nm Ag films as a substrate for magnetic layers. Then we grew NiO wedge layers on the substrate, and added 8 monolayer(ML) Fe layers on the wedge layer. We examined magnetic properties of the bi-layer system using the surface magnetic optical Kerr effect(SMOKE) and X-ray magnetic linear dichroism(XMLD). From SMOKE measurement we observed the coercivity enhancement due to the set-up of anti-ferromagnetic order of NiO films in both of the Fe/NiO/MgO(001) and Fe/NiO/Ag/MgO(001) system. The most remarkable results in our observation is that the coercivity enhancement of Fe/NiO/Ag/MgO(001) is much larger than that of Fe/NiO/MgO(001). XMLD experiments confirmed the out-of-plane spin direction of NiO layers in Fe/NiO/MgO(001) and in-plane spin-direction of NiO layers in Fe/NiO/Ag/MgO(001), and we concluded that the origin of large enhancement of coercivity is due to the strong parallel coupling between Fe layers and NiO layers. We also confirmed that this strong parallel coupling maintained across the thin Ag layer inserted between Fe and NiO layers. For Fe-CoO system, we prepared Fe/CoO/Ag(001) and Fe/CoO/MnO(001) systems and observed much larger coercivity enhancement in Fe/CoO/Ag(001).

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.139-142
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• 2000

The interlayer coupling between adjacent ferromagnetic layers was examined for CoFe/Cu/NiFe trilayer systems. A series of films of CoFe (20 nm)/Cu($t_{cu}$)/NiFe (20 nm) trilayers with Cu spacer thickness, $t_{cu}$, in the range of 1~10 m was deposited on Si(100) wafers at room temperature by DC magnetron sputtering. In order to understand the dependence of the magnetic interaction between ferromagnetic $Co_{90}Fe_{10}$ (wt.%) and $Ni_{81}Fe_{19}$ (wt.%) layers separated by a nonmagnetic Cu spacer on the Cu layer thickness, we investigated the derivative ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectra. The FMR results were analyzed using the model of Layadi and Art-man for interlayer interaction. The interlayer coupling constant decreases in an oscillatory manner as the Cu spacer thickness increases up to 10 nm and approaches zero above 10 nm. The interlayer coupling constant is positive for all samples. Hence, it seems that the exchange coupling between adjacent CoFe and NiFe layers separated by a Cu layer is ferromagnetic.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.245-250
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• 2012

Ferromagnetic resonance and X-ray specular reflectivity measurements were performed on $Ni_{81}Fe_{19}/Ir_{20}Mn_{80}/Co_{90}Fe_{10}$ exchange bias trilayers, which were grown using the pulsed-DC magnetron sputtering technique on Si(100)/$SiO_2$(1000 nm) substrates, to investigate the evolution of the interface roughness and exchange bias and their dependence on the NiFe layer thickness. The interface roughness values of the samples decrease with increasing NiFe thickness. The in-plane ferromagnetic resonance measurements indicate that the exchange bias field and the peak-to-peak line widths of the resonance curves are inversely proportional to the NiFe thickness. Furthermore, both the exchange bias field and the interface roughness show almost the same dependence on the NiFe layer thickness. The out-of plane angular dependent measurements indicate that the exchange bias arises predominantly from a variation of exchange anisotropy due to changes in interfacial structure. The correlation between the exchange bias and the interface roughness is discussed.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.129-133
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• 2010

초연자성을 띠는 코네틱(Conetic; NiFeCuMo) 박막을 상호 중간층으로 강자성체인 CoFe 또는 NiFe 박막 사이에 삽입한 코닝 유리(Corning glass)/Ta(5 nm)/[CoFe or NiFe(5 nm-t/2)]/NiFeCuMo(t = 0, 4, 6, 8, 10 nm)/[CoFe or NiFe(5 nm-t/2)]/Ta(5 nm) 3층 박막구조에 대한 자기적 특성을 조사하였다. CoFe와 NiFe 박막의 자기적 특성은 박막의 두께에 따라 크게 결정되므로 자화 곤란축과 자화 용이축으로 측정된 이방성 자기저항 곡선으로부터 얻은 보자력과 자화율을 각각 비교하였다. 특히 3층 박막구조에서 NiFe 박막 사이에 자유층으로 NiFeCuMo 박막을 삽입하면 높은 자기저항비를 유지하면서 향상된 자장감응도를 유지하는 고감도 바이오센서용 거대자기저항-스핀밸브(giant magnetoresistive-spin valves; GMR-SV) 및 자기터널접합(magnetic tunnel junction; MTJ) 소자로 활용할 수 있다.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.265-269
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• 2005

강자성 공명 측정을 통하여 다양한 층 구성을 갖는 교환 바이어스 박막들의 교환 결합 특성에 대해 연구하였다. 공명자기장의 각도의존 실험을 통하여 일축방향이방성 자기장과 일축이방성 자기장을 구하여 분석하였다. NiFe 단일 박막과 비교하여 교환 바이어스된 NiFe/IrMn, IrMn/NiFe/IrMn, NiFe/IrMn/CoFe 박막들은 큰 일축방향이방성 자기장을 나타내었으며, 일축이방성 자기장 또한 큰 값을 나타내었다. 그러나 NiFe/Cu/IrMn의 경우, Cu의 두께가 두꺼울 때는 매우 작은 일축방향이방성 자기장을 나타내었으며, NiFe 단일 박막과 비슷한 크기의 일축이방성 자기장을 나타내었다. NiFe/IrMn/CoFe 박막의 경우 NiFe와 CoFe 강자성층들에 의해 두 개의 공명 자기장이 나타났다. 그 외에 공명 자기장의 선폭에 관한 분석이 교환 바이어스 특성과 연관하여 논의되어졌다.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2009

Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) magnetometry was used to investigate magnetization reversal dynamics in 30-nm NiFe/15-nm FeMn, 15-nm FeMn/30-nm CoFe bilayers, and 30-nm NiFe/(2,10)-nm FeMn/30-nm CoFe trilayers. The in-plane magnetization components of each ferromagnetic layer, both parallel and perpendicular to the applied field, were separately determined by measuring the longitudinal and transverse MOKE hysteresis loops from both the front and back sides of the film for an oblique incident s-polarized beam. The magnetization of the FeMn/CoFe bilayer was reversed abruptly and symmetrically through nucleation and domain wall propagation, while that of the NiFe/FeMn bilayer was reversed asymmetrically with a dominant rotation. In the NiFe/FeMn/CoFe trilayers, the magnetic reversal of the two ferromagnetic layers proceeded via nucleation and domain wall propagation for 2-nm FeMn, but via asymmetric rotation for 10-nm FeMn. The exchange-biased ferromagnetic layers showed the magnetization reversal along the same path in the film plane for the decreasing and increasing field branches from transverse MOKE hysteresis loops, which can be qualitatively explained by the theoretical model of the exchange-biased ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic systems.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.444-448
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• 2010

Based on first-principles calculations, we study the magnetic properties of Co, Ni, Fe, V, and Mn impurities in ZnO. The stabilities of the ferromagnetic state and the magnetic moment of each impurity largely depend on the amount of doped electron or hole. For lightly doped n-type ZnO, it is found that the doping of Ni ions is the most effective for inducing ferromagnetism, while Fe ions show the most stable ferromagnetic couplings for heavily doped n-type samples. The characteristics of the magnetic interactions of Co ions are similar with those of Fe ions, but Co ions require much larger amount of doped electron than Fe ions to show the ferromagnetic couplings. The ferromagnetic coupling between Mn and V ions is unstable in n-type conditions.

• 한국자기학회:학술대회 개요집
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• 한국자기학회 2002년도 동계연구발표회 논문개요집
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• pp.190-191
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• 2002

Granular feromagnets는 non-magnetic maxtrix 안에 nanometer-sized의 ferromagnetic grain들 구성된다. Co-Cu,Co-Ag, Fe-Ag, NiFe-Ag $^1$을 포함하는 이미 알려진 다른 Granular 금속 합금들의 giant magnetoresistance 에 관계하여 Granular feromagnets 에 대해 조사하였다. Bulk상태의 NiFe와 Mn 혼화되기 쉽다.$^2$ 그리고 Mn은 열처리된 다층박막의 NiFe의 lattice에 쉽게 수용되어진다.$^3$ 이번 실험에서는 metastable한 fcc solid solution NiFe-Mn 박막이 열처리 하에서 NiFe과 Mn으로 분리되었다. (중략)

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2000

본 실험에서는 D.C magnetron sputtering을 사용하여 Ni-Fe/Co-Fe/Mn-Ir/Cu/buffer/Si 다층박막의 교환이방성에 관하여 연구하였다. 일반적인 Ni-Fe/Mn-Ir/buffer(Cu)/Si의 다층박막 구조는 낮은 교환결합 자계에 의하여 강자성체를 완전히 고착시키지 못한다. 따라서 Ni-Fe/Mn-Ir/buffer/Si 다층박막의 $H_{ex}$를 증가시키기 위해 하지층으로 Cu/Ta을 사용하여 Mn-Ir막의 결정립 부피를 증가시키고 Ni-Fe.Mn-Ir계면에 Co-Fe을 삽입하여 반강자성체/강자성체 계면에서의 epitaxy 경향을 향상시켜 2배 이상의 $H_{ex}$의 증가를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 ferromagnete/Mn-Ir/buffer/Si의 다층박막 구조에서는 Mn-Ir거 두께에 따른 He일 변화 거동은 Mn-Ir/ferromagnete/buffer/Si다층박막구조와는 다른데 이와 같은 이유는 적층순서에 따라서 반강자성체 결정립의 부피분포와 계면에서의 교환결합 에너지가 차이가 나기 때문인 것으로 사료된다.