Spatiotemporally separating electron and phonon thermal transport in L1₀ FePt films for heat assisted magnetic recording

We report the spatio-temporal separation of electron and phonon thermal transports in nanostructured magnetic L1₀ FePt films at the nanometer length scale and the time domain of tens of picosecond, when heated with a pulsed laser. We demonstrate that lattice dynamics measured using the picosecond time-resolved laser pump/X-ray probe method on the FePt (002) and Ag (002) Bragg reflections from different layers provided the information of nanoscale thermal transport between the layers. We also describe how the electron and phonon thermal transports in nanostructured magnetic thin films were separated.