Sputtering pressure effects and temperature-dependent magnetism of Co/Pd multilayers" (1994). David Sellmyer Publications. Paper 102. The temperature dependence of the sputtering Ar pressure effects on magnetic properties and the coercivity mechanism of Co(2 &/Pd(13 A) multilayers were studied as the sputtering Ar pressure varied from 3-15 mTorr and the temperature from 300 to 35 K. It is found...

Many interesting properties of polynomials are closely related to the geometry of their Newton polytopes. We analyze the coercivity on R of multivariate polynomials f ∈ R[x] in terms of their Newton polytopes. In fact, we introduce the broad class of so-called gem regular polynomials and characterize their coercivity via conditions imposed on the vertex set of their Newton polytopes. These cond...

It was observed that the coercivity of CoCrPt films deposited on a polyimide tape was much lower than the coercivity deposited on a rigid glass substrate under identical conditions. X-ray diffraction showed that the desirable ~112! and ~110! texture of the NiAl/CrMn underlayers on the tape substrate was severely degraded during the deposition process. This resulted in the destruction of ~10.0! ...

Local coercivity variation of Co/Pd nanomultilayers has been investigated by measuring the polar Kerr hysteresis loops of the local areas of submicron size using a magneto-optic Kerr microscope system. Interestingly, the local coercivity distribution was very sensitive to an increase in the number of repeats: the ~2 Å Co/11 Å Pd)10 sample showed a smooth variation of the local coercivity, while...

The effects of Nd2Fe14B grain size and Nd coating on the coercivity in sputter-deposited Nd-Fe-B/Nd thin films have been investigated in order to gain an insight into the coercivity mechanism of Nd-Fe-B magnets. Highly textured Nd2Fe14B particles were grown successfully on the MgO(100) single-crystal substrate with the Mo underlayer. As the Nd-Fe-B layer thickness t NFB was decreased from 70 to...

Influence of replacing Sr ions by rare-earth ions (RE) ions on the structural and magnetic properties of high coercivity (Hc) SrFe10Al2O19 hexaferrite have been investigated using X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimeter, and SQUID. A 73% increase in intrinsic coercivity is observed for Al doped SrFe10Al2O19 as compared to that of pure SrFe12O19. Th...

We study the switching behavior of thin single domain magnetic elements in the presence of microwave excitation. The application of a microwave field strongly reduces the coercivity of the elements. We show that this effect is most profound at the ferromagnetic resonance frequency of the elements. Observations using time-resolved magneto-optic Kerr microscopy in combination with pulsed microwav...

We have investigated the magnetism of NiFe/CoO/Co trilayers with different CoO spacer thicknesses. The dependence of the coercivity (Hc) and exchange bias field (Hex) on the CoO thicknesses indicated that different pinning strengths from the CoO were acting on the top NiFe and bottom Co layers, respectively. DC susceptibility indicated the different interlayer coupling energies and showed that ...

The local coercivity distribution of CoCrPt alloy films prepared by dc magnetron sputtering has been investigated by means of magneto-optical microscope magnetometer, capable of simultaneously measuring the local magnetic properties on a submicrometer spatial resolution. We find that with increasing Pt concentration the local coercivity distribution becomes asymmetric and the average local coer...

The high coercivity of 26.2 kOe for SmCo5 nanoflakes are obtained by multistep (three steps) surfactant-assisted ball milling. The magnetic properties, phase structure and morphology are studied by VSM, XRD and SEM, respectively. The results demonstrate that the three step ball-milling can keep more complete crystallinity (relatively less defects) during the process of milling compared with one...