scholarly journals Ion Irradiation for Planar Patterning of Magnetic Materials

Crystals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Takeshi Kato ◽  
Daiki Oshima ◽  
Satoshi Iwata

Kr+ ion dose dependence of the magnetic properties of MnGa films and the fabrication of planar-patterned MnGa films by the local ion irradiation technique were reviewed. The magnetization and perpendicular anisotropy of the MnGa vanished at an ion dose of 1 × 1014 ions/cm2 due to the phase change of the MnGa from ferromagnetic L10 to paramagnetic A1 phase. The average switching field Hsw of the planar-patterned MnGa increased with decreasing the bit size, implying low bit edge damage in the patterned MnGa, whereas a rather large switching field distribution (SFD) of 25% was confirmed for a bit size of ~40 nm. Time resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements revealed that as-prepared MnGa exhibits an effective anisotropy field Hkeff = 20 kOe, its distribution ΔHkeff = 200 Oe, and Gilbert damping α = 0.008. The ion-irradiated MnGa films exhibited larger Hkeff = 22–23 kOe than that of the MnGa before the ion dose. Thus, ion irradiation does not decrease the perpendicular anisotropy, which suggests a small bit edge in the patterned MnGa. ΔHkeff increased from 0.2 kOe to 3 kOe, whereas the length of disorder in the film ξ decreased from 10 nm to 3 nm by ion irradiation.

2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Langner ◽  
C. L. S. Kantner ◽  
Y. H. Chu ◽  
L. M. Martin ◽  
P. Yu ◽  
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Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (18) ◽  
pp. 5417
Author(s):  
Tomoaki Nakamura ◽  
Hiroki Tanaka ◽  
Tomofumi Horiuchi ◽  
Tsutomu Yamada ◽  
Yasushi Takemura

The Wiegand wire is known to exhibit a unique feature of fast magnetization reversal in the magnetically soft region accompanied by a large Barkhausen jump. We clarified a significant difference between the magnetization reversals at the surface and at the entire cross section of a Wiegand wire. We conducted magnetization measurements based on the magneto-optical Kerr effect and applied conventional methods to determine the magnetization curves. The switching field of the magnetization reversal at the surface was greater than that at the initiation of a large Barkhausen jump. Our analysis suggests that the outer surface layer exhibits low coercivity.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anulekha De ◽  
Justine Lynn Drobitch ◽  
Sudip Majumder ◽  
Saswati Barman ◽  
S. Bandyopadhyay ◽  
...  

Using time-resolved magneto optical Kerr effect (TR-MOKE) microscopy, we demonstrate surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) induced resonant amplification of intrinsic spin-wave (SW) modes, as well as generation of new extrinsic or driven modes...


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