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Magnetostriction and Stress in High Moment FeTaN Films
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2012
Abstract
Magnetostriction and thin film stress have been studied in high moment single layer FeTaN films deposited by high rate reactive dc magnetron sputtering. Low Magnetostriction (Magnitude less than 1 × 10-6) can be obtained over a fairly large range of nitrogen flow rates during film deposition by vacuum annealing at 500°C. After annealing at 500°C for two hours, all films were found to be in a state of tensile stress. Stress versus temperature measurements up to 400°C show film stress in as-deposited films to be highly hysteretic during the first temperature cycle reflecting the films' processing history. Stress-temperature cycles on annealed samples indicate that extremely stable films are produced in an intermediate range of nitrogen content.
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