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The effect of heat treatment on the magnetic properties of Tb-Co amorphous films and film structures based on them has been studied. Regularities of variations of the coercive force and induced magnetic anisotropy constants of Tb-Co amorphous films and the coercive force and unidirectional anisotropy field of the permalloy layer in Fe19Ni81/Tb-Co films were determined as functions of the annealing temperature. The regularities found have been interpreted by assuming temperature-induced changes in the shortrange atomic order in the amorphous structure and interlayer diffusion in two-layer films.
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Original Russian Text © V.O. Vas’kovskiy, A.V. Svalov, K.G. Balymov, N.A. Kulesh, 2012, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2012, Vol. 113, No. 9, pp. 908–912.
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Vas’kovskiy, V.O., Svalov, A.V., Balymov, K.G. et al. Effect of annealing on the magnetic anisotropy and hysteretic properties of film structures containing Tb-Co amorphous layers. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 113, 862–866 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X1209013X
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