scholarly journals Effects of average grain size on the magnetic properties of permalloy films

2018 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 01003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Djuzhev ◽  
Aleksey Iurov ◽  
Nikita Mazurkin ◽  
Maksim Chinenkov ◽  
Aleksey Trifonov ◽  
...  

In this paper the results of substrate temperature effects on average grain size in FeNi 20:80 are shown. It was found that with an increase of the substrate temperature from 270 to 390 °C, the anisotropic magnetoresistive (AMR) effect increases from 1.2 to 2.3% and the coercive force from 1.6 to 5.3 Oe. The presence of two conflicting processes: the task of increasing AMR effect to achieve high sensitivity of AMR-sensor and to decrease the coercive force to increase the precision of conversion, leads to the necessity to find the optimum deposition temperature of the permalloy film. The dependence of the AMR effect and the coercive force on the substrate temperature during deposition was obtained. This dependence shows that the substrate temperature increasing above 320 °C leads to coercive force increasing and does not lead to a substantial AMR increasing. In this regard, the substrate temperature 320 °C was determined as optimal.

1986 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.J. Van Der Kolk ◽  
M.J. Verkerk

AbstractAl was evaporated at oxygen partial pressures, PO2, varying between 10−7 and 10−4 Pa on substrates of silicon nitride. The substrate temperature was varied between 20 °C and 250°C. The films were annealed at temperatures up to 500°C.For Al films deposited at 20°C, it was found that the average grain size decreases with increasing oxygen partial pressure. After annealing recrystallization was observed. The relative increase of grain size was less for higher values of pO2. Annealing gave rise to a broad grain size distribution.For Al films deposited at 250°C, the presence of oxygen caused the growth of rough inhomogeneous films. This inhomogeneous structure remained during annealing.


Author(s):  
T. Pikula ◽  
T. Szumiata ◽  
K. Siedliska ◽  
V. I. Mitsiuk ◽  
R. Panek ◽  
...  

AbstractIn this work, BiFeO3 powders were synthesized by a sol–gel method. The influence of annealing temperature on the structure and magnetic properties of the samples has been discussed. X-ray diffraction studies showed that the purest phase was formed in the temperature range of 400 °C to 550 °C and the samples annealed at a temperature below 550 °C were of nanocrystalline character. Mössbauer spectroscopy and magnetization measurements were used as complementary methods to investigate the magnetic state of the samples. In particular, the appearance of weak ferromagnetic properties, significant growth of magnetization, and spin-glass-like behavior were observed along with the drop of average grain size. Mössbauer spectra were fitted by the model assuming cycloidal modulation of spins arrangement and properties of the spin cycloid were determined and analyzed. Most importantly, it was proved that the spin cycloid does not disappear even in the case of the samples with a particle size well below the cycloid modulation period λ = 62 nm. Furthermore, the cycloid becomes more anharmonic as the grain size decreases. The possible origination of weak ferromagnetism of the nanocrystalline samples has also been discussed.


2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (06n07) ◽  
pp. 1383-1388 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASLEEYATI YUSOP ◽  
DELIANG ZHANG ◽  
MARCUS WILSON ◽  
NICK STRICKLAND

Al 2 O 3-20 vol % Fe 70 Co 30 composite powders have been prepared by high energy ball milling a mixture of Al 2 O 3 powder and Fe 70 Co 30 alloy powder. The Fe 70 Co 30 alloy powder was also prepared by mechanical alloying of Fe and Co powders using the same process. The effects of milling duration from 8 to 48 hours on microstructure and magnetic properties of the nanostructured composite powders have been studied by means of X-ray Diffractometry (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). It was found that the nanostructured composite powder particles with irregular shapes and Fe 70 Co 30 alloy particles being embedded in them formed after 8 hours of milling. The average grain size of the Al 2 O 3 matrix reduced drastically to less than 18nm after 16 hours of milling. On the other hand, the embedded alloy particles demonstrated almost unchanged average grain size in the range of 14-15nm. Magnetic properties of the powder compacts at room temperature were measured from hysteresis curves, and show strong dependence of the milling time, with the coercivity increasing from 67.1 up to 127.9kOe with increasing the milling time from 8 to 48 hours. The possible microstructural reasons for this dependence are discussed.


1989 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kanicki ◽  
E. Hasan ◽  
D. F. Kotecki ◽  
T. Takamori ◽  
J. H. Griffith

ABSTRACTDevice quality undoped hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon has been prepared by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition under different conditions. The dependence of physical, chemical, structural, and electrical properties on the deposition conditions has been investigated. Conductive (conductivity above 10−3Ω−1 cm−1) and resistive (conductivity around 10−9Ω−1cm−1) layers having approximately the same grain size, at a given substrate temperature, have been deposited between 200 and 500°C at two different hydrogen dilutions. Independently of the hydrogen dilution, the average grain sized is dependent on the deposition temperature and the film thickness; and a maximum average grain size of about 40 nm has been achieved for a thick film deposited at 500°C. The density of paramagnetic defects also increases with increasing deposition temperature, which indicates that more dangling bond defects are introduced as the total area of the grain boundaries increases. The etch rate decreases with increasing deposition temperature, and for the films deposited at 250 and 500°C the etch rate has been measured to be 6.6 and 2.7 nm/min, respectively. Thin film transistors incorporating a microcrystalline channel have been fabricated and evaluated. The best device had the following properties: field effect mobility, threshold voltage, and on/off current ratio of about 0.8 cm2/V sec, below 5 V, and around 106, respectively.


2001 ◽  
Vol 703 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Bessais ◽  
C. Djéga-Mariadassou ◽  
J. Zhang ◽  
V. Lalanne ◽  
A. Percheron-Guégan

ABSTRACTThe evolution of both micro structural and magnetic properties of the Sm[BE]Co[BD][BJ] Cu powder, is studied as a function of soft co-milling time. The average grain size in the range 20 - 50 nm was determined by transmission electron microscopy coupled with x-ray diffraction using the Rietveld method. The particle shape and chemical distribution were investigated by elemental mapping, using wavelength dispersive x-ray analysis with electron microprobe analysis. The coercivity evolution shows that an optimum value of 6 kOe is obtained after 5 h co-milling. The microstructure analysis indicates that both materials are well mixed in nanometer scale. This technique appears as a potential route to synthesize nanocrystalline Sm[BE]Co[BD][BJ] isolated by non-magnetic metal Cu.


2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
M. MANJURUL HAQUE ◽  
M. HUQ ◽  
SYED FARID UDDIN FARHAD ◽  
JASIM UDDIN KHAN ◽  
M. A. HAKIM

The microstructure and magnetic properties of Mg – Cu – Zn ferrites prepared by using solid-state reaction method have been investigated. X-ray diffraction (XRD), a scanning electron microscope (SEM), impedance analyzer and a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) were utilized in order to study the effect of copper substitution and its impact on the crystal structure, grain size, microstructure and magnetic properties of the Mg – Cu – Zn ferrite. The formation of cubic spinel phase was identified using XRD technique. The microstructures of the samples show that the grain growth is greatly enhanced by the addition of CuO which is attributed to the liquid phase during sintering. The average grain size (Dm) increases significantly with increasing Cu content. The initial permeability (μ') of the samples increases appreciably with increasing Cu content which is attributed to the increase of grain size and density of the samples. The resonance frequency (fr) of the samples shifts toward the lower frequency as the Cu content increases. The sharp fall of μ' in μ'-T curves is observed for all the samples which indicate the homogeneity of the samples. The saturation magnetization (Ms) of the Mg – Cu – Zn ferrites increases slightly with increasing Cu concentration.


2005 ◽  
Vol 498-499 ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mário Cézar Alves da Silva ◽  
Claudemiro Bolfarini ◽  
Claudio Shyinti Kiminami

Deposits of the Fe-6.5wt%Si alloy produced by spray forming were annealed at temperatures between 900 and 1300oC, during 1h in vacuum and quenched in oil at temperatures between 300 and 700oC, separately. Magnetic properties, singular microstructure and random crystallographic texture were measured. After annealing at 1250°C for 1h under vacuum, the average grain size is of 500 μm, the grain orientation is random and the magnetic properties were: power loss of 1.30 W/kg, maximum permeability of 15400 and coercive force of 40 A/m, at B=1 T, f=60 Hz by using 0.60 mm thick rings for all studied samples. Higher annealing temperatures cause no decreasing of these properties. After quenched at 700°C, an improvement the magnetic properties where detected due to antiphase domain B2 growth. The magnetic properties were: power loss of 1.59 W/kg, maximum permeability of 12300 and coercive force of 76 A/m, at B=1 T, f=60 Hz.


2018 ◽  
Vol 386 ◽  
pp. 161-166
Author(s):  
Nikolay Djuzhev ◽  
Aleksey Iurov ◽  
Maksim Chinenkov

In this work the results of substrate temperature effects on coercivity and magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic structures are shown. It was found that with an increase of the substrate temperature from 270 to 390 °C the magnetoresistance increases from 1.2 to 2.3% and the coercive force from 1.6 to 5.3 Oe. A new topology of anisotropic magnetoresistive structures is proposed. In these structures the shape of ferromagnetic elements repeats the shape of nonmagnetic conducting shunts. Sensitivity values obtained for both types of magnetic structures are compared.


Metals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 896
Author(s):  
Chunxia Zhou ◽  
Tongkui Li ◽  
Xianshun Wei ◽  
Biao Yan

In this paper, the radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering (MS) method was utilized to fabricate multiple sets of the iron film samples under different sputtering powers. With the help of X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), how the sputtering power affected the structure, morphology and magnetic properties of the iron film was studied. XRD results showed that all Fe films have a polycrystalline bcc structure and (110) preferred orientation. According to the Bragg equation calculation, the larger the sputtering power, the larger the average grain size, which is consistent with the results of AFM particle size analysis. The main reason is that the sputtering power affects the grain growth mode. As the sputtering power increases, it gradually changes from a small island-like growth to a thick columnar growth. However, from the surface morphology and height profile, we saw that the iron film deposited under 230 W had the most uniform grain size distribution and the grain size was relatively small. This is why thin films deposited under this condition have the best soft magnetic properties. The saturation magnetization (Ms) reaches 1566 emu/cm3, coercivity (Hc) is 112 Oe, and squareness ratio (Mr/Ms) is 0.40. Therefore, iron film prepared under 230 W has good comprehensive properties (highest Ms, lower Hc and Mr/Ms) that provide an experimental basis for further thin film research work.


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