Abstract
We have fabricated single crystal cobalt and Co90Cr10 islands of dimension 130 nm × 330 nm × 20 nm by a direct-write electron beam lithography and ion-milling process. The islands have the crystalline easy axis along the short axis. These islands have been characterized by magnetic force microscope in the presence of an applied field. About 85% of the as-grown cobalt islands were single domain and rest 15% showed a bi-domain state. The as-grown Co90Cr10 islands were all in a single domain state. In remanence all the islands were single domain in both the pure and the alloyed films. Two modes of switching were observed. Some of the islands switched by going through a bi-domain state and the rest switched directly from a single domain state to a single domain state.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2987-2989 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 5 I |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2000 Sept |
Event | 2000 International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG 2000) - Toronto, Ont, Canada Duration: 2000 Apr 9 → 2000 Apr 12 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received February 12, 2000. This work was supported by the NSF, under Grant ECS 9710395. S. Ganesan, C. M. Park, K. Hattori, H. C. Park, and R. L. White are with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). H. Koo and R. D. Gomez are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). Publisher Item Identifier S 0018-9464(00)07938-3.
Keywords
- Electron beam lithography
- Magnetic force microscopy
- Magnetic recording
- Patterned media
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering