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Title: | Magnetic microstructures from magnetic force microscopy and Monte Carlo simulation in CoFe-Ag-Cu granular films |
Author: | Batlle Gelabert, Xavier Valencia, A. Labarta, Amílcar O'Grady, K. Watson, M. L. |
Keywords: | Mètode de Montecarlo Metalls de transició Aliatges Microscòpia electrònica Pel·lícules fines Anisotropia Monte Carlo method Transition metals Alloys Electron microscopy Thin films Anisotropy |
Issue Date: | 1998 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Abstract: | CoFe-Ag-Cu granular films, prepared by rf sputtering, displayed magnetic domain microstructures for ferromagnetic concentrations above about 32% at, and below the percolation threshold. All samples have a fcc structure with an (111) texture perpendicular to the film plane. Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) showed a variety of magnetic domain microstructures, extremely sensitive to the magnetic history of the sample, which arise from the balance of the ferromagnetic exchange, the dipolar interactions and perpendicular magnetocrystalline anisotropy, MFM images indicate that in virgin samples, magnetic bubble domains with an out-of-plane component of the magnetization are surrounded by a quasicontinuous background of opposite magnetization domains. The application of a magnetic field in different geometries drastically modifies the microstructure of the system in the remanent state: i) for an in-plane field, the MFM images show that most of the magnetic moments are aligned along the film plane, ii) for an out-of-plane field, the MFM signal increases about one order of magnitude, and out-of-plane striped domains with alternating up and down magnetization are stabilized. Numerical simulations show that a variety of metastable domain structures (similar to those observed experimentally) can be reached, depending on magnetic history, in systems with competing perpendicular anisotropy, exchange and dipolar interactions. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/20.706309 |
It is part of: | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 1998, vol. 34, núm. 4 (Part 1), p. 912-914. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/8586 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/20.706309 |
ISSN: | 0018-9464 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Física de la Matèria Condensada) |
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