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Dimitrios I. Anyfantis, Camillo Ballani, Nikos Kanistras, Alexandros Barnasas, Vassilios Kapaklis, Georg Schmidt, Evangelos Th. Papaioannou and Panagiotis Poulopoulos Growth, Magnetic Anisotropies and Exchange Bias of Thin Ni0.95Fe0.05/NiFeO Multilayers Coatings 12(5) (2022-05-16 13:29:31), 627 DOI: 10.3390/coatings12050627 Ni0.95Fe0.05/NiFeO multilayers were fabricated by radio frequency magnetron sputtering and natural oxidation. Doping of Ni by only 5 at. % Fe results in enhanced layering quality as X-ray reflectivity reveals. Due to magnetostatic anisotropy, the multilayers were found to be in-plane magnetized. The influence of mild thermal annealing (T = 525 K) on the magnetic properties of NiFe/NiFeO multilayers is also investigated. Annealing results in the enhancement of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, mainly due to an increase in the uniaxial volume anisotropy term. Temperature-dependent hysteresis measurements between 4-400 K revealed considerable enhancement of coercivity and appearance of exchange bias effect. |