The single-layered Fe100-xPtx films of 30 nm thick with Pt contents (x) of 35-57 at.% are deposited on heated Si (100) substrate at a temperature (Ts) of 620 degrees C by magnetron co-sputtering. When the Pt content in the Fe-Pt alloy film is 35 at.%, the value of in-plane coercivity (Hc(//)) is close to perpendicular coercivity (Hc(perpendicular to)) and both values are about 800 kA/m. The FePt films exhibit perpendicular magnetic anisotropy when the Pt content increases to the values of between 45 and 51 at.%. The perpendicular coercivity, saturation magnetization (Ms) and perpendicular squareness (S-perpendicular to) for Fe54Pt46 film are as high as 1113 kA/m, 0.594Wb/m(2) and 0.96, respectively. These magnetic properties reveal its significant potential as perpendicular magnetic recording media. Upon further increasing the Pt content to 57 at.%, the coercivity of the Fe-Pt film decreases drastically to below 230 kA/m and tends to be closer to in-plane magnetic anisotropy. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.