In this study, post-annealing under NH3 gas atmosphere was conducted in order to promote the two-phase separation of FePt-BN granular films. Magnetic properties and structural analysis for the Fe50Pt50-30 vol% BN granular films revealed that (1) saturation magnetization (M
s) of the granular film increased from 500 to 650 emu/cm3 with increasing post-annealing time from 0 to 10 minutes, (2) the orientation of FePt grains changes from (002) to (111) and fully ordered with increasing post-annealing time up to 30 minutes, (3) the unit cell volume of FePt grains in the granular film decreased from 55.91 Å3 to 55.55 Å3 with increasing post-annealing time from 0 to 10 minutes, which suggests dissolve and eject of solid solution element. From the above, M
s reduction for the FePt-BN granular films is considered to be caused by the solid solution of B in the FePt grains.
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