Structure-property relationships of two crystal structures were investigated using computational methodologies in two different length scales:electronic and atomistic length scales. Electronic structure calculations were performed using density functional theory (DFT) with generalized gradient approximation (GGA), GGA+U (U is “on-site” electronelectron repulsion) and hybrid functional forms. Atomistic calculations were performed utilizing the semi-empirical interatomic formulation, Modified Embedded Atom Method (MEAM). Classical molecular dynamics simulations were performed on the atomistic length scale in order to investigate thermal properties. In the first study, structural, elastic and thermal properties of cementite (Fe3C) were investigated using a Modified Embedded Atom Method (MEAM) potential for iron-carbon (Fe-C) alloys. Previously developed Fe and C single element potentials were used to develop a Fe-C alloy MEAM potential, using a statistically-based optimization scheme to reproduce structural and elastic properties of cementite, the interstitial energies of C in bcc Fe as well as heat of formation of Fe-C alloys in L12 and B1 structures. The stability of cementite at high temperatures was investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. The nine single crystal elastic constants for cementite were obtained by computing total energies for strained cells. Polycrystalline elastic moduli for cementite were calculated from the single crystal elastic constants of cementite. The formation energies of (001), (010), and (100) surfaces of cementite were also calculated. The melting temperature and the variation of both the specific heat and volume with respect to temperature were investigated by performing a two-phase (solid/liquid) molecular dynamics simulation of cementite. The predictions of the potential are in good agreement with first-principles calculations and experiments. In the second study the site occupancy and magnetic properties of Zn-Sn substituted M-type Sr-hexaferrite (SrFe12-x(Zn0.5Sn0.5)xO19 with x = 1) were investigated using firstprinciples total-energy calculations. We find that in the ground-state configuration Zn-Sn ions preferentially occupy 4f1 and 4f2 sites unlike the model previously suggested by Ghasemi et al. where Zn-Sn ions occupy 2b and 4f2 sites. Our model predicts a rapid increase in saturation magnetic moment (Ms) as well as decrease in magnetic anisotropy compared to the pure M-type Sr-hexaferrite, which is consistent with experimental observations.

This thesis comprises of two parts. In the first, we improve the performance of existing hybrid FSO/RF communication systems. Conventional hybrid RF and optical wireless communication systems make use of independent and parallel Free Space Optical (FSO) and RF channels to achieve higher reliability than individual channels. This thesis is based on the idea that true hybridization can be accomplished only when both channels collaboratively compensate the shortcomings of each other and thereby, improve the performance of the system as a whole. We believe that optimization on the combined channel capacities instead of the individual channel capacities of the FSO and RF channels can increase the system availability by a large amount. Using analysis and simulation, we show that, by using Hybrid Channel Codes, we can obtain more than two orders of magnitude improvement in bit error rates and many-fold increase in system availability over the currently existing best systems. Simulations also show that the average throughput obtained using the new system is over 35% better when compared to the present systems. The goodput is much higher because of the elimination of data repetition. Also by avoiding data duplication, we preserve to a great extent the crucial security benefits of FSO communications. The second half of the thesis deals with magnetic recording systems. Due to the insatiable and ever-increasing needs of data storage, novel techniques have to be developed to improve the capacity of magnetic recording channels. These capacity requirements translate to improving storage densities and using higher recording rates. For these channels, improvements even in the order of a tenths of a dB have a big impact on the storage densities of the recording device. Recently, LDPC codes have been constructed to achieve the independent and uniformly distributed (i.u.d.) capacity of partial response (PR) channels. The “guess algorithm” has been proposed for memoryless channels, to improve the performance of iterative belief propagation decoding to that of Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding. In the second part of this thesis, the “guess algorithm” is extended to channels with memory. It is shown using asymptotic density evolution analysis that the gains obtained using this algorithm on these channels are more than those obtained over memoryless channels. The “guess algorithm” is further extended to magnetic recording channels which are characterized by ISI and additive white gaussian noise (AWGN). Simulations show that gains of upto one dB are possible on magnetic recording channels.

FePt films with the L10 phase have potential applications for magnetic recording and permanent magnets due to its high magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy density. Heat treatment of n multilayer films is one approach to form the L10 FePt phase through a solid state reaction. This thesis has studied the diffusion and reaction of n multilayer films to form the L10 FePt phase and has used this understanding to construct exchange spring magnets. The process-structure-property relations of n multilayer films were systematically examined. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study of the annealed multilayers indicates that the Pt layer grows at the expense of Fe during annealing, forming a disordered fcc FePt phase by the interdiffusion of Fe into Pt. This thickening of the fcc Pt layer can be attributed to the higher solubilities of Fe into fcc Pt, as compared to the converse. For the range of film thickness studied, a continuous L10 FePt product layer that then thickens with further annealing is not found. Instead, the initial L10 FePt grains are distributed mainly on the grain boundaries within the fcc FePt layer and at the Fe/Pt interfaces and further transformation of the sample to the ordered L10 FePt phase proceeds coupled with the growth of the initial L10 FePt grains. A comprehensive study of annealed n films is provided concerning the phase fraction, grain size, nucleation/grain density, interdiffusivity, long-range order parameter, and texture, as well as magnetic properties. A method based on hollow cone dark field TEM is introduced to measure the volume fraction, grain size, and density of ordered L10 FePt phase grains in the annealed films, and low-angle X-ray diffraction is used to measure the effective Fe-Pt interdiffusivity. The process-structure-properties relations of two groups of samples with varying substrate temperature and periodicity are reported. The results demonstrate that the processing parameters (substrate temperature, periodicity) have a strong influence on the structure (effective interdiffusivity, L10 phase volume fraction, grain size, and density) and magnetic properties. The correlation of these parameters suggests that the annealed n multilayer films have limited nuclei, and the subsequent growth of L10 phase is very important to the extent of ordered phase formed. A correlation between the grain size of fcc FePt phase, grain size of the L10 FePt phase, the L10 FePt phase fraction, and magnetic properties strongly suggests that the phase transformation of fccL10 is highly dependent on the grain size of the parent fcc FePt phase. A selective phase growth model is proposed to explain the phenomena observed. An investigation of the influence of total film thickness on the phase formation of the L10 FePt phase in n multilayer films and a comparison of this to that of FePt co-deposited alloy films is also conducted. A general trend of greater L10 phase formation in thicker films was observed in both types of films. It was further found that the thickness dependence of the structure and of the magnetic properties in n multilayer films is much stronger than that in FePt alloy films. This is related to the greater chemical energy contained in n films than FePt alloy films, which is helpful for the L10 FePt phase growth. However, the initial nucleation temperature of n multilayers and co-deposited alloy films was found to be similar. An investigation of L10 FePt-based exchange spring magnets is presented based on our understanding of the L10 formation in n multilayer films. It is known that exchange coupling is an interfacial magnetic interaction and it was experimentally shown that this interaction is limited to within several nanometers of the interface. A higher degree of order of the hard phase is shown to increase the length scale slightly. Two approaches can be used to construct the magnets. For samples with composition close to stoichiometric L10 FePt, the achievement of higher energy product is limited by the average saturation magnetization, and therefore, a lower annealing temperature is beneficial to increase the energy product, allowing a larger fraction of disordered phase. For samples with higher Fe concentration, the (BH)max is limited by the low coercivity of annealed sample, and a higher annealing temperature is beneficial to increase the energy product.

Advanced scanning magnetoresistive microscopy (SMRM) — a robust magnetic imaging and probing technique — is presented. It utilizes conventional recording heads of a hard disk drive as sensors. The spatial resolution of modern tunneling magnetoresistive sensors is nowadays comparable with more commonly used magnetic force microscopes. Important advantages of SMRM are the ability to detect pure magnetic signals directly proportional to the out-of-plane magnetic stray field, negligible sensor stray fields, and the ability to apply local bipolar magnetic field pulses up to 10 kOe with bandwidths from DC up to 1 GHz. The performance assessment of this method and corresponding best practices are discussed in the first section of this work. An application example of SMRM, the study on chemically ordered L10 FePt is presented in a second section. A constructed heater unit of SMRM opens the path to investigate temperature-dependent magnetic properties of the medium by recording and imaging at elevated temperatures. L10 FePt is one of the most promising materials to reach limits in storage density of future magnetic recording devices based on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). In order to be implemented in an actual recording scheme, the medium Curie temperature should be lowered. This will reduce the power requirements, and hence, wear and tear on a heat source — integrated plasmonic antenna. It is expected that the exchange coupling of FePt to thin Fe layers provides high saturation magnetization and elevated Curie temperature of the composite. The addition of Cu allows adjusting the magnetic properties such as perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, coercivity, saturation magnetization, and Curie temperature. This should lead to a lowering of the switching field of the hard magnetic FeCuPt layer and a reduction of thermally induced recording errors. In this regard, the influence of the Fe layer thickness on the switching behavior of the hard layer was investigated, revealing a strong reduction for Fe layer thicknesses larger than the exchange length of Fe. The recording performance of single-layer and bilayer structures was studied by SMRM roll-off curves and histogram methods at temperatures up to 180 °C In the last section of this work, SMRM advantages are demonstrated by various experiments on a two-dimensional magnetic vortex lattice. Magnetic vortex is a peculiar complex magnetization configuration which typically appears in a soft magnetic structured materials. It consists of two coupled sub-systems: the core, where magnetization vector points perpendicular to the structure plane, and the curling magnetization where magnetic flux is rotating in-plane. The unique properties of a magnetic vortex making it an object of a great research and technological interest for spintronic applications in sensorics or data storage. Manipulation of the vortex core as well as the rotation sense by applying a local field pulse is shown. A spatially resolved switching map reveals a significant "write window" where vortex cores can be addressed correctly. Moreover, the external in-plane magnet extension unit allow analyzing the magnetic vortex rotational sense which is extremely practical for magnetic coupling investigations of magnetic coupling phenomena.

With magnetic storage devices already achieving storage densities of up to 400 Gigabits per square inch (Gb/in2), the state of the art is rapidly approaching theoretical limits (dictated by thermal stability concerns). Hence, there is an eort in the industry to develop alternative magnetic storage technologies. Two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) is one such candidate technology. In contrast to other technologies(e.g. heat-assisted magnetic recording [1], bit-patterned media [2]) which rely on signicant changes being made to the recording medium, TDMR relies on the use of traditional recording media, while relying on signal processing to make improvements in the recording density. Though advantageous due to the fact that no drastic re-engineering of media is required, there are signicant challenges that need to be addressed in order to make TDMR a viable candidate for next-generation recordingsystems.The main challenges involved in TDMR arise due to (i) the small bit-area, along with an aggressive write/read process, which leads to a large amount of noise, and (ii) the two-dimensional nature of the recording process { so far not encountered in today's systems. Thus, a gamut of 2D signal processing algorithms need be developed for the compensation of errors occurring due to the aggressive write/read processes. In this dissertation, we present some of the work done with regard to the signal processing tasks involved in TDMR. In particular, we describe our work on (i) channel modelling, (ii) detection strategies, and (iii) error-correction coding strategies targetted at TDMR.

Ce travail s'inscrit dans le cadre général de l'étude structurale et magnétique de nanomatériaux magnétiques à base de terres rares (R) et de métaux de transition (T) dont le domaine d'application concerne les aimants permanents ou l'enregistrement magnétique à haute densité. Dans la recherche de nouvelles phases aux caractéristiques magnétiques performantes, nous nous sommes intéressés à l'alliage Pr2Co7 . Ce composé a des propriétés magnétiques dures intéressantes : température de Curie élevée et une anisotropie magnéto-cristalline uniaxiale importante. Du point de vue magnétique, les interactions d'échange Co-Co sont les plus fortes, suivies par les interactions R-Co, tandis que les interactions R-R sont très faibles. La dominance des interactions Co-Co induit des températures de Curie assez élevée dans les composés Pr2Co7 . L'anisotropie magnétocristalline résulte de la combinaison de deux anisotropies uniaxiales des réseaux de praséodyme et de cobalt. Afin de renforcer ces interactions, il s'avère nécessaire de substituer partiellement le cobalt dans les composés Pr2Co7 par un élément approprié tel que le fer qui a un rayon légèrement plus gros que celui du cobalt ou par insertion d'un élément léger tel qu’hydrogène ou le carbone qui peuvent augmenter les distances interatomiques et renforcer le moment magnétique. De plus, parallèlement à des propriétés magnétiques intrinsèques performantes, il est nécessaire d'optimiser les propriétés magnétiques extrinsèques de l'alliage par la recherche d'un état nonocristallin convenable correspondant aux applications potentielles. Les propriétés extrinsèques des composés Pr2Co7 n'ont été que très peu étudiées. Plusieurs méthodes ont été utilisées pour l'élaboration des nanomatériaux. Dans notre étude, nous avons mis en œuvre la technique de broyage à haute énergie suivie d'une recristallisation contrôlée, méthode de synthèse qui jusque-là n'avait pas encore été utilisée pour synthétiser ce type de composé. À cette échelle, la taille des grains devient de l'ordre de grandeur de la longueur d'échange. Cette méthode qui constitue un processus de synthèse hors équilibre, permet l'obtention de poudres nanostructurées métastables à partir d'un mélange de poudres élémentaires. Cette technique est particulièrement efficace dans le cas des alliages à base de terre rares (Pr, Sm...) qui sont extrêmement volatil. En effet, elle permet d'éviter l'état liquide puisque la réaction a lieu en dessous de la température de fusion et conduit à des quantités importantes reproductibles et homogènes d'alliages. Nous avons utilisé différentes méthodes de caractérisation à savoir : la diffraction de rayon X (DRX), la microscopie électronique à transmission (MET) couplée avec l'analyse EDX,la Magnéto/susceptométre Manics DSM-8 / This work falls within the general framework of the structural and magnetic nanomaterials based magnetic rare earth (R) and transition metal (T) whose domain of application concerns the permanent magnets or magnetic recording high density. In search of new magnetic phases in performance characteristics, we were interested in the alloy Pr2Co7. This compound has interesting hard magnetic properties: high Curie temperature and uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy important. From the perspective of magnetic exchange interactions Co-Co are the strongest, followed by R-Co interaction, while the RR interactions are very weak. The dominance of Co-Co interactions induces relatively high Curie temperatures in compounds Pr2Co7.The magnetocrystalline anisotropy results from the combination of two networks uniaxial anisotropy praseodymium and cobalt. To strengthen these interactions, it is necessary to partially substitute cobalt in compounds Pr2Co7 by an appropriate element such as iron which has a radius slightly larger than that of cobalt or by insertion of a light element the hydrogen and carbon that can increase the interatomic distances and enhance the magnetic moment. Moreover, along with intrinsic magnetic properties improves, it is necessary to optimize the extrinsic magnetic properties of the alloy by the search for a suitable nanocrystalline state corresponding to the potential applications. The extrinsic properties of compounds Pr2Co7 have been little studied.Several methods were used for the development of nanomaterials. In our study, we have W arranty the technique of high energy milling followed by recrystallization controlled synthesis method which until then had not yet been used to synthesize this type of compound. At this scale, the grain size becomes of the order of magnitude of the exchange length. This method which is a non-equilibrium synthesis process, allows the production of nanostructured powders metastable from a mixture of elemental powders. This technique is particularly effective in the case of alloys based on rare earth (Pr, Sm ...) that are extremely volatile. Indeed, it avoids the liquid state since the reaction takes place below the melting temperature and led to reproducible and large quantities of homogeneous alloys. We used different characterization methods, namely: the X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) coupled with EDX analysis, the magneto / susceptometer Manics DSM-8

La richesse de la physique sous-jacente au déplacement de parois magnétiques suscite actuellement un fort intérêt, réhaussé par les possibilités d'applications dans les mémoires magnétiques.Les nanobandes fabriquées par lithographie constituent la quasi-totalité des systèmes dans lesquels les parois sont étudiées.Une géométrie cylindrique implique cependant des structures et dynamiques de parois qui se démarqueraient de celles observées dans les nanobandes et résoudraient notamment les limitations des vitesses de propagation observées.Leur procédé d'élaboration, fabrication d'une membrane nanoporeuse et remplissage électrolytique des pores, permet d'obtenir des fils auto-organisés en réseau, de grand rapport d'aspect et de faible distribution en diamètre.Malgré leur intérêt indéniable, peu d'études ont été consacrées aux parois dans ces systèmes cylindriques.Cette thèse se propose donc de contribuer au sujet.Une partie de cette thèse a été consacrée à la mise en place et au développement de certaines étapes du procédé de fabrication : réduction de la porosité des membranes, modulation du diamètre des pores, dépôt électrolytique d'un alliage magnétique.Ces ajustements de la géométrie et de la structure des fils ont permis d'étudier plusieurs aspects des parois dans les nanofils.Dans un premier temps, une méthode expérimentale a été proposée pour réduire les interactions magnétostatiques qui gêneraient la propagation des parois dans les réseaux denses de fils.Son efficacité a été démontrée sur le mécanisme de nucléation des parois qui intervient en bout de fil lors du renversement de l'aimantation, en mesurant les cycles d'hystérésis des réseaux de fils.D'autres mécanismes de piégeage ont ensuite été mis en évidence par l'analyse de courbes de première aimantation mesurées suite à la nucléation contrôlée de parois.Les champs de propagation de l'ordre de quelques milliteslas, mesurés par microscopie à force magnétique sur des fils individuels, ouvrent cependant la voie aux études dynamiques dans ces systèmes.Enfin, l'observation de la structure interne des parois par dichroïsme circulaire magnétique de rayons X en microscopie de photoémission d'électrons (PEEM-XMCD) a permis de mettre en évidence les deux types de parois prédits par la théorie et les simulations, pour lesquels des mobilités très différentes sont attendues. / The underlying physics of magnetic domain wall motion is currently arousing a strong interest, enhanced by the possibilities of applications into magnetic memories.Domain walls are mostly studied in nanostripes made by lithography.Nevertheless, a cylindrical geometry would involve domain walls with different structures and dynamical behaviors that could resolve issues, such as the speed limitation observed in nanostripes.Their elaboration process, via the fabrication of nanoporous template followed by the electrolytic filling of the pores, leads to self-organized nanowires with high aspect ratio and weak distribution in diameter.In spite of their undeniable interest, for now only very few domain walls studies have been conducted on such cylindrical systems.This thesis hence intends to contribute to the subject.Part of the thesis have been devoted to the setting and development of some steps of the fabrication process : reduction of membrane porosity, modulation of the pore diameter, electrodeposition of a magnetic alloy.These geometrical and structural adjustments of the nanowires have been used to study several facets of domain walls in nanowires.In the first place, an experimental way to reduce the magnetostatic interactions that could disturb domain wall propagation in dense arrays of nanowires have been proposed.Its efficency have been demonstrated through array hysteresis cycles, on the domain wall nucleation that occurs at nanowires extremities during magnetization reversal.Others pinning mechanisms have then been evidenced by analyzing initial magnetization curves measured after a controlled nucleation of domain walls.However, the observation of propagation fields of a few milliteslas by magnetic force microscopy (MFM) on individual nanowires opens the way to dynamical studies on such systems.At last, the observation of domain wall internal structure by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism in photoemission electron microscopy (XMCD-PEEM) evidenced the two types of domain walls theoretically and numerically predicted, for which very different mobilities are expected.

As part of the natural evolution and continued optimisation of their designs, current and future magnetic recording heads, used and proposed in technologies such as perpendicular recording, shingled magnetic recording and two-dimensional magnetic recording, often exhibit asymmetry in their structure. They consist of two semi-infinite poles separated by a gap (where the recording field is produced), with an inner gap faces inclined at an angle. Modelling of the fields from asymmetrical structures is complex, and no explicit solutions are currently available (only implicit conformal mapping solutions are available for rational inclination angles). Moreover, there is limited understanding on the correlation between the gap corner angle and the magnitude, distribution and wavelength response of these head structures. This research was therefore set out to investigate approximate analytical and semi-analytical methods for modelling the magnetic potentials and fields of two-dimensional symmetrical and asymmetrical magnetic recording heads, and deliver a quantitative understanding of the behaviour of the potentials and fields as functions of gap corner angles. The accuracy of the derived expressions (written in terms of the normalised root-mean-square deviation) was assessed by comparison to exact available solutions for limited cases, and to finite-element calculations on Comsol Multiphysics. Two analytical methods were derived to approximately model the fields from two-dimensional heads with tilted gap corners in the presence and absence of a soft magnetic underlayer (SUL): in the first method, the potential near a single, two-dimensional corner held at a constant potential is derived exactly through solution of Laplace's equation for the scalar potential in polar coordinates. Then through appropriate choice of enclosing boundary conditions, the potentials and fields of two corners at equal and opposite potentials and displaced from each other by a distance equal to the gap length were superposed to map the potential and field for asymmetrical and symmetrical heads. For asymmetrical heads, the superposition approximation provided good agreement to finite-element calculations for the limited range of exterior corner angles 0 from 0 (right-angled corner) to 45, due to the mismatch of surface charge densities on both poles for this geometry. For symmetrical head structures, the superposition approximation was found to yield remarkable agreement to exact solutions for all gap corner orientations from 0 (right-angled head) to 90 ("thin" gap head). In the second method derived in this research for modelling asymmetrical heads involved using a rational function approximation with free parameters to model the surface potential of asymmetrical heads. The free parameters and their functional dependence on corner angle were determined through fitting to finite-element calculations, enabling the derivation of analytical expressions for the magnetic fields that are in good agreement with exact solutions for all corner angels (0 to 90). To complement the two approximate methods for modelling the fields from asymmetrical and symmetrical heads, a new general approach based on the sine integral transform was derived to model the reaction of soft underlayers on the surface potential or field of any two-dimensional head structure, for sufficiently close head-to-underlayer separations. This method produces an infinite series of correction terms whose coefficients are functions of the head-to-underlayer separation and gap corner angle, that are added to the surface potential or field in the absence of an underlayer. This new approach demonstrated good agreement with finite-element calculations for sufficiently close head-to-underlayer separations, and with the classical Green's functions solutions for increasing separations. Using the derived analytical method and explicit expressions in this work, an understanding of the nature of the magnetic fields and their spectra as functions of the gap corner angles is gained. This understanding and analytical theory will benefit the modelling, design and optimisation of high performance magnetic recording heads.

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Recentemente, nanopartículas (NP) de FePt de fase tetragonal de face centrada (fct) em sistemas auto-organizados tem sido sintetizados como potenciais candidatos para gravação magnética de ultra-alta densidade (UHMR), devido a sua elevada anisotropia magnetocristalina. Entretanto, o alinhamento magnético de NP esféricas tem sido constantemente um problema, pois os eixos de fácil magnetização das NP permanecem randomicamente orientados nas três direções. Na tentativa de superar os problemas decorrentes da falta de alinhamento magnético, trabalhos recentes sugerem que NP alongadas em sistemas auto-organizados orientados perpendicularmente a superfície do substrato como possível solução para a textura e alinhamento magnético. Até o presente momento, as sínteses de nanobastões (NB) e de nanofios (NF) de FePt reportadas na literatura levam a obtenção de NP na fase cúbica de face centrada (fcc), a qual possui baixa anisotropia magnetocristalina e se mostrou termicamente instável, resultando em NP esferoidais após o processo de recozimento para a transformação da fase fcc para fct. Neste trabalho, NP de Fe55Pt55 com tamanho e composição química controlada e morfologia de nanofios e nanobastões foram sintetizadas através da adequação do método do poliol modificado. Além disso, as condições de sínteses foram ajustadas para a obtenção direta das NP na fase fct. Sistemas auto-organizados de NB orientados longitudinalmente ou perpendicularmente em arranjos hexagonais compactos foram obtidos utilizando, respectivamente, ácido oléico (AO) e oleilamina (Oam) ou hexadecilamina (HDA) como agentes espaçadores. Sistemas de NB orientados perpendicularmente com alinhamento magnético devido à anisotropia de forma combinado com as propriedades magnéticas resultantes da fase parcialmente tetragonal obtida sugerem um forte candidato a aplicação em UHMR com densidade de gravação magnética na ordem de terabits/pol2. / Recently, self-assembled FePt nanoparticles (NP) in face-centered tetragonal phase (fct) has been synthesizes as potential candidates for Ultra-High Magnetic Recording Systems (UHMR) due to high magnetocrystalline anisotropy. However, the magnetic alignment of these self-assembled fct-FePt nanoparticles also has been a constant limiting factor, since the axes of easy magnetization of spherical nanoparticles are presented randomly oriented in three directions. Concerning to avoid these restrictions arising from magnetic alignment, one-dimensional NP perpendicularly oriented on the magnetic medium surface has been reported as a possible solution for texture and magnetic alignment. To date, the reported nanorods (NR) and nanowires (NW) synthesized in the literature showed face centered cubic phase (fcc) which present poor magnetocrystalline anisotropy, instead the fct desirable phase, and were found to be thermally unstable resulting in spheroidal NP after annealing required to phase transformation from fcc to fct. In this work, Fe55Pt45 NP with morphologies varying from nanospheres, NR with different lengths up to NW were synthesized by a modified polyol process. Furthermore, the synthesis conditions were adjusted to obtain FePt NP directly in fct phase. Either longitudinal or perpendicular self-assembled NR systems in a hexagonal compact array were obtained using oleic acid (OA) and oleylamine (Oam) or hexadecylamine (HAD), respectively, as molecular organic spacers. Perpendicularly oriented NR system led to magnetic alignment due to shape anisotropy and combined with the magnetic properties due to partial tetragonal phase suggest a strong future candidate to ultra-high magnetic density recording applications capable to achieve density of Terabits/in2.