Characterization and Kinetic Roughening Study Electrodeposited Co-Cu/Cu and Fe-Co-Cu/Cu Multilayers on Glass/Au Substrate

In this research Co-Cu/Cu and Fe-Co-Cu/Cu multilayer were electrodeposited on sputtered gold on glass substrates. The kinetic roughening of samples was investigated by atomic force microscopy (AFM) images and the logarithmic scale plots of roughness as a function of scan lengths. The XRD patterns indicate the multilayer thin films follow their substrate textures. The EDX results show that in both Co-Cu/Cu and Fe-Co-Cu/Cu multilayers the Co content increases as the magnetic layer thickness increasing. The SEM images show that increasing the magnetic and nonmagnetic layers thicknesses leads to increase the grain size of multilayers. The Magnetic property studies of samples reveal that the coercivity decreases and the remanence increases by presenting of Fe in magnetic multilayers.