Scanning electron microscopy, and magnetization measurements reveal that as cast (Nd1 xCex)2Fe14B alloys contain significant amounts of a-Fe that can be dramatically reduced by annealing the alloys at 1000 C for 3 days. The room temperature intrinsic coercivity, Hci, of (Nd0.8Ce0.2)2.2Fe14B melt spun ribbons was found to be 11 kOe, which is ~32e~10% higher in comparison to that of Nd2Fe14B (Hci...

In this study, we demonstrated the magnetoelectric control of magnetic thin films. (111)-textured Pd/Ni/ Pd thin films were prepared on mica/lead zirconium titanate (PZT) substrates for the investigation. The reversible modulation of magnetic coercivity in Ni films was observed through the electric-voltagecontrolled strain variation from the PZT substrate. For 14 nm Ni film, the applied electri...

Single phase, sol-gel prepared Cu1-x Fe x O (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.125) powders are characterized in terms of structural, electronic and magnetic properties. Using dielectric and magnetic studies we investigate the coupling of electron and spin. The electrical conductivities and activation energies are studied with increasing Fe content. Modelling of experimental conductivity data emphasizes a single hoppi...

A potential low magnetic moment standard reference material (SRM) was studied in an interlaboratory comparison. The mean and the standard deviation of the saturation moment m s, the remanent moment m r, and the intrinsic coercivity H c of nine samples were extracted from hysteresis-loop measurements. Samples were measured by thirteen laboratories using inductive-field loopers, vibrating-sample ...

Interfacial moments of an antiferromagnet are known for their prominent effects of induced coercivity enhancement and exchange bias in ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic exchange-coupled systems. Here we report that the unpinned moments of an antiferromagnetic face-centered-cubic Mn layer can drive the magnetization of an adjacent Fe film perpendicular owing to a formation of intrinsic perpendicul...

Pinning type coercivity has been induced in large sø50 mmd particles of Sm2Fe17N3 by irradiation with 5 GeV Pb561 ions. Mössbauer spectroscopy is used to analyze the structure of the defects and estimate their volume. Magnetization measurements indicate that the induced defects are anisotropic in shape. A model of strong pinning by cylindrical defects is employed to deduce a defect radius of or...

This paper presents computable lower bounds of the penalty parameters for stable and convergent symmetric interior penalty Galerkin methods. In particular, we derive the explicit dependence of the coercivity constants with respect to the polynomial degree and the angles of the mesh elements. Numerical examples in all dimensions and for different polynomial degrees are presented. We show the num...

(Fe0 7Co0 3)1 N (or FeCoN) alloy single layers and FeCoN film sandwiched between two very thin (5 nm) permalloy layers have been synthesized by RF diode sputtering. The saturation magnetization of the as-deposited FeCoN single layers was found to be around 24.5 kG, the same as the pure Fe0 7Co0 3 alloy; and the minimum hard-axis coercivity was 5 Oe. In contrast, the sandwiched FeCoN films have ...

The influence of Cu, Ag, and Au additives on the L10 ordering, texture, and grain size of FePt thin films has been examined. Lattice parameter data indicated that Au and Ag additives tended to segregate from FePt, but Cu alloyed with FePt. FePt films with Au or Ag additive showed 1–2 kOe higher coercivity values compared to a pure FePt film after annealing at 450 °C and above for 10 min. The ad...