Fabrication, Structural Characterization and Magnetic Properties of Nanostructure Fe-Co-W Coatings Prepared by Electrodeposition

In this research, nanocrystalline FeCoW alloy coatings were electrodeposited on copper substrate. The results showed that current density and bath composition can affect structural and magnetic properties. However, surface morphology changed due to bath composition. Furthermore, by increasing current density, the amount of fcc phase decreased in fcc淇 double phase structure. It was observed that deposition parameters didn’t change the grain size of the coatings efficiently, and this parameter was lower than 20 nm for all the cases. Due to the diffusional phenomenon that take places at higher current densities, the amount of deposited tungsten decreased, and thus lower microhardness values were reported. By comparing XRD and VSM data, it was assumed that the extensive change in the coercivity is related to the phase structure in these alloys.