Thermal expansion and magnetostriction, the strain responses of a material to temperature and a magnetic field, especially properties at low temperature, are extremely useful to study electronic and phononic properties, phase transitions, quantum criticality, and other interesting phenomena in cryogenic engineering and materials science. However, traditional dilatometers cannot provide magnetic...

This paper reports on a recent study aimed at developing the stress-induced magnetic anisotropy (SMA) technique for characterizing residual stresses in case hardened steel components. The results of SMA measurements performed on flat induction hardened steel discs with different case depths confirm the feasibility of detecting principal stress axes by measuring the angular variation of magnetic...

Cobalt ferrite is a ferrimagnetic magnetostrictive ceramic that has potential application in magnetoelastic and magnetoelectric transducers. In this work, CoFe(2)O(4) was obtained using a conventional ceramic method and Bi(2)O(3) was used as additive in order to obtain liquid-phase sintered samples. Bi(2)O(3) was added to the ferrite in amounts ranging from 0.25 mol% to 0.45 mol% and samples we...

SrRuO3 films and SrRuO3/SrTiO3 superlattices grown on SrTiO3(001) were studied by structural, magnetic, magnetoresistance and Hall effect measurements. The superlattices showed heteroepitaxial growth with coherent interfaces and a Ru/Ti diffusion region of 1-1.5 unit cells. The resistivity had metallic character above a critical thickness of 3-4 unit cells, becoming insulating below. There was ...

Magnetically soft amorphous glass-coated microwires are suitable for numerous sensor applications. Their typical dimensions – metallic nucleus diameter of 1 to 50 m and glass coating thickness of 1 to 30 m – make them promising candidates for high frequency applications, especially given their sensitive giant magneto-impedance (GMI) response in the MHz and GHz ranges (Torrejón et al, 2009). T...

Standard approaches to magneto-mechanical interactions in thermal magnetic crystalline solids involve Landau functionals in which the lattice anisotropy and the resulting magnetization easy axes are taken explicitly into account. In glassy systems one needs to develop a theory in which the amorphous structure precludes the existence of an easy axis, and in which the constituent particles are fr...

Soft, high moment materials are crucial for the magnetic data recording industry in applications such as write poles and soft underlayers. Ever increasing areal densities have pushed the requirements for materials exhibiting saturation magnetizations above 2 T. In this work we investigate nanocrystalline FeCoB which exhibits a saturation magnetization of ;2.2 T. FeCoB exhibits a magnetostrictio...

We prepared an Fe-based ribbon with controlled permeability and low magnetic loss by Continuous Stress-Annealing by Joule Heating (CSA-JH) method. The shortest annealing time necessary for the obtaining of the ribbons with completely developed anisotropy was 1 sec, but in order to obtain the sufficiently crystallized ribbons with small saturation magnetostriction it is required to perform annea...