Exploring the origins of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in amorphous Tb-Co via changes in medium-range ordering

Ellis Kennedy, Emily Hollingworth, Alejandro Ceballos +4

Amorphous thin films of Tb${}_{17}$Co${}_{83}$ (a-Tb-Co) grown by magnetron co-sputtering exhibit changes in magnetic anisotropy with varying growth and annealing temperatures. The mag…