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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS VOLUME 78, NUMBER 8 19 FEBRUARY 2001 Low-temperature ordering of L1 –CoPt thin films promoted 0 by Sn, Pb, Sb, and Bi additives O. Kitakamia) and Y. Shimada Research Institute for Scientific Measurements, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan K. Oikawa Tohoku National Industrial Research Institute, Sendai 983-8551, Japan H. Daimon Tsukuba Research Laboratory, Hitachi Maxell, Tsukuba 300-2595, Japan K. Fukamichi Department of Materials Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan Received 2 October 2000; accepted for publication 1 December 2000 We have studied the effect of additional elements of Sn, Pb, Sb, and Bi on the ordering of L10–CoPt films. All of these additives are demonstrated to be very effective to promote the ordering and developing of a very large coercivity of the samples annealed at 400 °C. It is worth noting that this annealing temperature for ordering is 200 °C lower than that of pure CoPt. The crystallographic and chemical analyses have revealed that these additives easily diffuse and segregate onto the film surfaces by postannealing because of their very low surface free energy and extremely low solubility in Co. Therefore, it seems reasonable to conclude that the ordering in the CoPt film is significantly promoted at much lower temperature by the aid of a lot of defects produced by the additives excreted by postannealing. © 2001 American Institute of Physics. DOI: 10.1063/1.1346628 Magnetic recording is a predominant data storage tech- by annealing if the atomic interaction energy of Ag–Pt is nology