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A new highly anisotropic Rh‐based Heusler compound for magnetic recording
Authors:
Yangkun
He
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Gerhard H.
Fecher
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Chenguang
Fu
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Yu
Pan
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Kaustuv
Manna
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Johannes
Kroder
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Ajay
Jha
(Trinity College Dublin)
,
Xiao
Wang
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Zhiwei
Hu
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Stefano
Agrestini
(Diamond Light Source)
,
Javier
Herrero-Martin
(ALBA Synchrotron Light Source)
,
Manuel
Valvidares
(ALBA Synchrotron Light Source)
,
Yurii
Skourski
(Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD‐EMFL), Helmholtz‐zentrum Dresden–Rossendorf)
,
Walter
Schnelle
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Plamen
Stamenov
(Trinity College Dublin)
,
Horst
Borrmann
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Liu Hao
Tjeng
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
,
Rudolf
Schaefer
(Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden; TU Dresden)
,
Stuart S. P.
Parkin
(Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)
,
John Michael D.
Coey
(Trinity College Dublin)
,
Claudia
Felser
(Max‐Planck‐Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
Co-authored by industrial partner:
No
Type:
Journal Paper
Journal:
Advanced Materials
, VOL 33
State:
Published (Approved)
Published:
October 2020
Abstract: The development of high‐density magnetic recording media is limited by superparamagnetism in very small ferromagnetic crystals. Hard magnetic materials with strong perpendicular anisotropy offer stability and high recording density. To overcome the difficulty of writing media with a large coercivity, heat‐assisted magnetic recording was developed, rapidly heating the media to the Curie temperature Tc before writing, followed by rapid cooling. Requirements are a suitable Tc, coupled with anisotropic thermal conductivity and hard magnetic properties. Here, Rh2CoSb is introduced as a new hard magnet with potential for thin‐film magnetic recording. A magnetocrystalline anisotropy of 3.6 MJ m−3 is combined with a saturation magnetization of μ0Ms = 0.52 T at 2 K (2.2 MJ m−3 and 0.44 T at room temperature). The magnetic hardness parameter of 3.7 at room temperature is the highest observed for any rare‐earth‐free hard magnet. The anisotropy is related to an unquenched orbital moment of 0.42 μB on Co, which is hybridized with neighboring Rh atoms with a large spin–orbit interaction. Moreover, the pronounced temperature dependence of the anisotropy that follows from its Tc of 450 K, together with a thermal conductivity of 20 W m−1 K−1, make Rh2CoSb a candidate for the development of heat‐assisted writing with a recording density in excess of 10 Tb in.−2.
Journal Keywords: 4d magnetism; magnetic hardness parameter; magnetic recording; magnetocrystalline anisotropy; tetragonal; Heusler alloys
Diamond Keywords: Data Storage; Alloys; Ferromagnetism
Subject Areas:
Materials,
Physics,
Information and Communication Technology
Facility: BL29 (BOREAS) at ALBA; HZDR
Added On:
12/10/2020 14:07
Documents:
adma.202004331.pdf
Discipline Tags:
Quantum Materials
Hard condensed matter - electronic properties
Physics
Electronics
Components & Micro-systems
Information & Communication Technologies
Magnetism
Materials Science
Metallurgy
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