Magnetization Reversal and Magnetic Switching Volume in Electrodeposited CoPt Magnetic Films with Different Thickness

Millimicrosecond Magnetization Reversal in Thin Magnetic Films

From ferromagnetic resonance xperiments and from calculations based on the modified Landau-Lifschitz equation, switching times for the coherent rotation of the magnetization in thin, permalloy-type films have been predicted to lie in the range of 1 mi1limicrosecond.l First measurements by D. 0. Smith et a1,2 utilizing a travellingwave oscilloscope with a response time of 2 mpec, indicated swi...

Magnetization reversal in nanoscale magnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy.

Magnetic reversal of ultra-thin films with planar magnetization

Classical spin simulations are used to study magnetic reversal in ultra-thin (16 monolayers) films with planar magnetization and surface roughness typical of epitaxially grown samples. Reduced site symmetry at surface steps leads to strong, local anisotropies that both nucleate reversal and pin domain wall motion. The results we obtain from realistic models with periodic roughness are interpret...

Magnetic Properties of Nanostructured CoPt and FePt Thin Films

Polycrystalline MgO underlayer films lead to different preferred orientations of 10 CoPt and FePt films after the annealing process, depending on the thickness of 10 films. 10 films with a thickness greater than 20 nm revealed mostly 10 [100] fiber texture and consequently in-plane anisotropy as determined by magnetic hysteresis. Strong perpendicular anisotropy due to the 10 [001] fiber texture...

Spin-current-induced magnetization reversal in magnetic nanowires with constrictions

We have performed experiments on current-induced domain-wall motion sCIDWMd in the case of the domain walls sDWd trapped within the nanoscale constrictions in patterned NiFe structures. Direct observation of current-induced magnetization reversal was achieved and critical current densities jc were measured in the presence of easy-axis magnetic fields. The direction of CIDWM was found to be alon...