THE CORRELATION OF TEXTURE AND MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES IN CO-CR FILMS

This investigation focuses on the correlation between the crystallogra phic orientation of grains with respect to magnetic properties in Co-C r films. Based on a distribution measured for the (0002) crystallograp hic pole densities, modified formulae describing the texture were used to calculate the coercivity Hc, the squareness ratio Rs (Mr perpendic ular-to/Ms) and the anisotropy field Ha for Co-Cr films. In general, c alculated values for the coercive force Hc agreed well with the measur ed values. The calculated Rs perpendicular-to values were much larger than the measured ones, however, indicating that the influence of the demagnetizing field and the magnetostriction on the orientation of the magnetization cannot be neglected.