Fabrication And Magnetic Properties Of Fcc Coxpt1-X Nanowires

CoXPt1-X alloy nanowires were fabricated by electrochemical template synthesis from a solution containing both Co(II) and Pt(II) ions. Over a wide range of deposition conditions, single-phase, fcc CoXPt1-X alloy nanowires were obtained. The nanowires exhibit both shape and magnetocrystalline anisotropy leading to large coercivity and high remanence along the wire axis. The magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant K-u was determined for <111> textured nanowires. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.