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Article Effect of Ta Buffer Layer and Tao X Barrier Thickness on the Evolution of the Structural and Magnetic Properties of the Fe/Tao X /Co Trilayers(Springer Verlag, 2010) Tokuç, Hüseyin; Tarı, SüleymanFe/TaO x /Co trilayers were grown on Si(100)/SiO2 substrates and on tantalum buffer layers by a high vacuum magnetron sputtering system. The effects of both Ta buffer layer and tantalum-oxide barrier layer thickness on the structural and magnetic properties and the coupling of the ferromagnetic layers have been studied. It was observed that Ta improves the structural properties of the Fe layer resulting in an increased coercive field. For a barrier thickness of 4 nm a weak decoupling starts to appear between the ferromagnetic layers and a clear step formation is observed with increasing thickness. The minor hysteresis loops predict an interlayer coupling for thin barriers. The annealing of trilayers up to 250°C shows an increased coercivity for only the Fe layer. Annealing further at 400°C has the opposite effect of decreasing the coercivity, indicating intermixing at the interfaces of the Fe. The refractive index of the insulator barrier shows that the barrier layer is not totally in the form of tantalum-pentoxide. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.Article Citation - WoS: 26Citation - Scopus: 24Effect of Ta Buffer Layer and Thickness on the Structural and Magnetic Properties of Co Thin Films(AVS Science and Technology Society, 2009) Vahaplar, Kadir; Tarı, Süleyman; Tokuç, Hüseyin; Okur, SalihSingle Co and Ta/Co bilayers were grown on Si(100) substrates in a magnetron sputtering system. The effect of Ta buffer layer and the thickness of Co layer on the structural and magnetic properties of the Co layers has been studied. A single Co layer shows a textured structure above thickness of 40 nm according to the x-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern. The magnetic properties of Co layers depend significantly on the thickness of the films. Ta grows as highly textured Β -Ta (tetragonal) phase on Si with a smooth surface. The XRD and atomic force microscopy results show that the Ta buffer layer improves the structural properties dramatically, resulting in a strongly textured and smoother surface morphology. The Ta layer also affects the magnetic properties of Co layers to a large extent, especially inducing an in-plane anisotropy in thin Co films.