Soft Magnetic Properties of Thin Nanocrystalline Particles Due to the Interplay of Random and Coherent Anisotropies

Anton Bachleitner-Hofmann, Bernhard Bergmair, Thomas Schrefl, Armin Satz, Dieter Suess

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Abstract

We investigated coercive fields of 200 nm × 1200 nm × 5 nm rectangular nanocrystalline thin films as a function of grain size D using finite-element simulations. To this end, we created granular finite-element models with grain sizes ranging from 5 to 60 nm, and performed micromagnetic hysteresis calculations along the y-axis (easy direction) as well as along the x-axis (hard direction). We then used an extended random anisotropy model to interpret the results and to illustrate the interplay of random anisotropy and shape-induced anisotropy, which is coherent on a much larger scale, in thin films.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2002806
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume53
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2017
Externally publishedYes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 103017 Magnetism

Keywords

  • Magnetics
  • nanocrystalline materials
  • soft magnetic materials
  • thin films
  • GRAIN-SIZE DEPENDENCE
  • DOMAINS
  • COERCIVITY

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