R. Selestino et al., THE MAGNETIC AND STRUCTURAL-PROPERTIES OF METALLIC AND NITRIDE-DOPED (CO90FE10 CU) MULTILAYERS/, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 33(5), 1997, pp. 3664-3666
Co90Fe10(2.5 nm)/Cu(2 nm, 3 nm, or 4 nm) multilayers (MLs) were DC mag
netron-sputtered in the presence of a trace N-2 sputtering gas constit
uent during GoFe layer growth. A reduction in saturation magnetization
and easy axis coercivity coupled with an increase in resistivity was
observed far the nitrided MLs compared to metallic MLs with identical
Cu layer thickness.