The fabrication and high-frequency ferromagnetic performances of nanocrystalline Fe70Co30-B soft magnetic films were investigated. It is revealed that the composition gradient sputtering method dramatically improves the high-frequency soft magnetic properties of the as-prepared films. This method gives rise to almost a linearly-increased distribution of compositions and residual stress. As a re...

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in the GHz frequency range are exploited for the all-elastic excitation and detection of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) in a ferromagnetic-ferroelectric (Ni/LiNbO(3)) hybrid device. We measure the SAW magnetotransmission at room temperature as a function of frequency, external magnetic field magnitude, and orientation. Our data are well described by a modified Landa...

Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and SQUID magnetometry measurements have been made on multilayers of amorphous FeioB30/Ag. The dependence of the magnetic surface anisotropy constant K, on the magnetic layer thickness 2L has been determined in the range 1.6 A ( 2L & 90 A using more than twenty samples. It is found that K, is constant for 2L ) 16.S A, but decreases monotonically towards zero as 2L ...

Interlayer exchange coupling in synthetic ferrimagnet structures consisting of perpendicularly magnetized CoCrPt and in-plane magnetized CoFeB layers, which are coupled by a Ru thin spacer, were investigated. The magnetization of the CoFeB layer turned perpendicular to the film plane after annealing at 300°C because of the appearance of interlayer coupling from the CoCrPt layer. The coupling va...

We report the electrical detection of magnetization dynamics in an Al/AlOx/Ni80Fe20/Cu tunnel junction, where a Ni80Fe20 ferromagnetic layer is brought into precession under ferromagnetic resonance conditions. The dc voltage generated across the junction by the precessing ferromagnet is enhanced about an order of magnitude compared to the voltage signal observed when the contacts in this type o...

Single-crystal thin films of the antiferromagnet FeF2 have been used to exchange bias overlayers of Fe. An unexpected coercivity enhancement is observed at temperatures above the Néel temperature of the FeF2. This coercivity reaches a peak value of over 600 Oe close to the Néel temperature and persists to above 300 K. The coercivity is correlated with the growth of an anisotropy in the ferromag...

The recent progress of nonlinear dynamics has stimulated a renaissance of high-power ferromagnetic resonance experiments on ferrites, both under the aspects of basic research and application. We report on resonance experiments in yttrium iron garnet spheres probing chaotic scenarios above the first-order Suhl threshold. Different techniques have been proposed to change the observed irregular au...

the magnetisation and electron spin resonance (esr) spectrum of two specimens of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-c), deposited from a filtered cathodic arc, were measured over a wide temperature range. the magnetisation was found to consist of superparamagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic contributions. the superparamagnetic contribution resembled that recently found in carbon prepared from ...