Out-of-Plane and In-Plane Magnetization Behavior of Dipolar Interacting FeNi Nanoislands around the Percolation Threshold

Magnetic properties of inhomogeneous nanoisland FeNi films were studied by SQUID magnetometry. The FeNi films with nominal thickness ranging from 0.6 to 2.0 nm were deposited by rf sputtering on Sitall glass substrates and covered by a protecting Al2O3 layer on the top. The SQUID data indicate prono...

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Published in:Journal of nanomaterials 2016-01, Vol.2016 (2016), p.1-9
Main Authors: Kovaleva, N. N., Pudonin, F. A., Kugel, K. I., Dejneka, A., Demikhov, E. I., Bagdinova, A. N., Prokhorov, V. V., Bagdinov, A. V., Stupakov, A., Gorbatsevich, A. A.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Anisotropy
Glass substrates
Magnetic fields
Magnetic properties
Magnetism
Magnetization
Nanomaterials
Nanostructure
Percolation
Physics
SQUIDs
Superconducting quantum interference devices
Thickness
Thresholds
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Summary:Magnetic properties of inhomogeneous nanoisland FeNi films were studied by SQUID magnetometry. The FeNi films with nominal thickness ranging from 0.6 to 2.0 nm were deposited by rf sputtering on Sitall glass substrates and covered by a protecting Al2O3 layer on the top. The SQUID data indicate pronounced irreversibility behavior for the out-of-plane temperature-dependent magnetization response (measured at H ≃ 100 Oe) using zero-field cooling (ZFC) and field-cooled warming (FCW) after the applied dc magnetizing field H m ≃ 2 T for the FeNi samples with nominal thickness 1.1 nm ≲ d ≲ 1.8 nm, below the percolation threshold. The positive difference between the FCW and ZFC data identifies two irreversibility temperature scales, T B ≈ 50 K and T ⁎ ≈ 200 K, which can be associated with the superparamagnetic and superferromagnetic behavior in inhomogeneous nanoisland FeNi films, respectively. However, above the film percolation threshold, we observed a crossover from the out-of-plane to in-plane magnetization orientation. Here, the in-plane FCW-ZFC difference implies negative remanent magnetization response in the temperature range T B ≲ T ≲ T ⁎ . The observed magnetization properties can be associated with the presence of the superferromagnetic phase in self-assembled clusters of quasi-2D metallic magnetic FeNi nanoislands.
ISSN:1687-4110
1687-4129
DOI:10.1155/2016/3190260