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Texture and magnetic properties of electrodeposited FePd films Hung-Pin Lin, Jui-Chao Kuo, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No.1, University Road, 701 Tainan, Taiwan /10.1016/j.matlet.2011.07.063, How to Cite or Link Using DOI Permissions Reprints Abstract FePd films were deposited on brass substrates through electrodeposition using an alkaline electrolyte, which were annealed at 500, 600, and 700 °C for 1 h to form the ordered γ1-FePd fct phase. After annealing, the γ1-FePd fct phase is observed at 500, 600 and 700 °C. FePd films show the normal direction close to 101, 111 and 421 directions after annealing 500, 600 and 700 °C, respectively. After annealing 500, 600 and 700 °C the average area grain size is 0.28 μm, 0.37 μm and 1.22 μm, respectively. The maximum coercivityHc of 309 Oe observed at 500 °C can be explained with both effects of the 001 easy axis and the small grain size. Highlights ? Effect of preferred orientation was investigated on the magnetic behavior of FePd. ? FePd films were deposited on brass substrates through electrodeposition. ? The 101, 111 and 421 fiber texture were obtained at 500, 600 and 700 °C. ? The maximum coercivity Hc of 309 Oe is observed at 500 °C. Keywords Electrodeposition; EBSD; FePd; Magnetic recording; Intermetallics 1. Introduction In 1977, Iwasaki [1] presented the first perpendicular recording system. L10-ordered intermetallic phases of FePt, CoPt, and FePd found by Daalderop et al. exhibited large magnetic anisotropy along tetragonal distortion c axis [2] and [3]. The magnetocrystallic anisotropy constant Kμ of 1.8 × 107 erg/cm? 3 for L10-ordered FePd is lower than the 6.6 × 107 erg/cm? 3 for FePt and the 4.9 × 107 erg/cm? 3 for CoPt. However, it is higher than the 0.2 × 107 erg/cm? 3 for the CoPtCr alloy [4]. In addition, the temperature of ordering transformation for FePd is much lower than that for FePt as well as for CoPt [5]. Due to the low temperature of