STRUCTURE AND MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES OF CO V MULTILAYERS/

Two series of Co/V multilayers were sputtered respectively with higher (series I) and lower(series II) deposition rates. X-ray diffraction pa tterns show that series II has better structural quality. The saturati on magnetization (M-s) and uniaxial perpendicular anisotropy constant (K-u) oscillate simultaneously with vanadium thickness and no interlay er coupling was observed in series 1, while spin-wave resonance and we ak interlayer coupling were observed in series II. We attribute the di fference to different degree of intermixing and alloy formation in the multilayers. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.