CORRELATION BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND MAONETIC PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS Gd-Co FILMS

The structure of amorphous Gd-Co films 400-700Ain thickness has been stu-died by electron diffraction and results of the radial distribution functions (RDF)have been obtained for five samples. In comparing the RDF for two of the samp-les with perpendicular and in-plane anisotropy respectively, it is shown that cor-relation between the nearest neighbour coordination of different kind of atoms inthe amorphous Gd-Co films and its magnetic anisotropy may be established.