The temperature dependence of the magnetization processes in mixed exchange-coupled double layers ECDL with a planar GdFeCo film 1 and a perpendicular anisotropy DyFeCo film 2 is analyzed from Faraday rotation measurements. During heating the magnetic state of the ECDL presents strong modifications depending not only on the external field applied along the normal to the layers, but mainly on the ECDL type which can change from a type 1 with an interlayer macroscopic antiferromagnetic (AF) coupling -A
12M1.
M2 to a type 2 with a ferromagnetic (F) coupling. From appropriate choice of the deposition parameters the films compositions were adjusted for either T
cp1<RT<T
cp2 or RT<T
cp2<T
cp1 where T
cp1,2 are the compensation temperatures of the layer 1 and 2 which gives the possibility to obtain at RT ECDL of type 1/AF or type 2/F respectively. Depending on the respective values of T
cp1 and T
cp2, it is observed by increasing the temperature, F→AF or AF→F type transitions at T
cp1 and T
cp2. The evolutions with the temperature of the magnetooptical (MO) hysteresis loops of the ECDL are explained at the first order from the parallel change of the individual loops of the layers 1 and 2. However very close to T
cp2 more complex MO loops are observed and can be explained from the rise of the hysteresis H
c1 in the planar layer 1 induced by a strong increase of the coercitivity H
c2 of the perpendicular layer 2 near its compensation temperature.
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