Vergara Platero, JoséFavieres Ruiz, CristinaMadurga Pérez, Vicente2014-06-132014-06-1320121931-757350910.1186/1556-276X-7-577https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/10872UPNa. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de MagnetismoIn this study, the fabrication of magnetic multilayers with a controlled value of the in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy field in the range of 12 to 72 kA/m was achieved. This fabrication was accomplished by the deposition of bilayers consisting of an obliquely deposited (54A degrees) 8-nm-thick anisotropic Co layer and a second isotropic Co layer that was deposited at a normal incidence over the first layer. By changing the thickness value of this second Co layer (X) by modifying the deposition time, the value of the anisotropy field of the sample could be controlled. For each sample, the thickness of each bilayer did not exceed the value of the exchange correlation length calculated for these Co bilayers. To increase the volume of the magnetic films without further modification of their magnetic properties, a Ta spacer layer was deposited between successive Co bilayers at 54A degrees to prevent direct exchange coupling between consecutive Co bilayers. This step was accomplished through the deposition of multilayered films consisting of several (Co8 nm-54A degrees/Co (X nm-0A degrees)/Ta6 nm-54A degrees) trilayers.application/pdfeng© 2012 Vergara et al.; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citedMagnetic multilayersExchange couplingMagnetic anisotropyThin filmsOblique incidenceMultilayer filmsPermalloy filmsEnergyProductIron filmsDepositionSurfaceOriginGrowthinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess