A multilayered ferromagnetic laminate includes a first magnetic film
having a cobalt alloy and a second magnetic film having an iron-nitrogen
alloy. The films are deposited upon one another and laminated to provide
a multilayered film structure having an alternating plurality of the
first and second magnetic films. The cobalt alloy may be a
cobalt-zirconium-tantalum alloy. The nitrogen is incorporated
interstitially in the crystalline structure of the iron of the second
magnetic film. The laminate forms the magnetic shields and the write
poles of magnetic disk and tape heads. The lamination of the first
magnetic film which has high electrically resistive, high mechanical
hardness, and high magnetic moment characteristics with the second
magnetic film which has lower electrically resistive and very high
magnetic moment characteristics yields the laminate which has very high
magnetic moment and very hard pole material characteristics and has the
ability to write at high frequencies.