Structural and magnetic properties of Ni-Mn-Ga films sputter-deposited on cube-textured polycrystalline substrate

Texture, magnetic and micromagnetic properties of the martensitic thin films with different thicknesses prepared by magnetron sputtering of Ni(52)Mn(24)Ga(24) target on paramagnetic Ni-Cr-W cube-textured thin tape are studied. The films exhibit 220-fiber texture. The texture features together with a large magnetocrystalline anisotropy lead to the conclusion about particular domain structure.