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MA: Magnetismus
MA 7: Micro- and Nanostructured Magnetic Materials I
MA 7.8: Talk
Monday, March 27, 2006, 16:45–17:00, HSZ 03
Neutron scattering and modeling of dipole-field-induced spin disorder in Nanoperm — •Andreas Michels1, C. Vecchini2, O. Moze2, K. Suzuki3, P.K. Pranzas4, J. M. Cadogan5, and J. Weissmüller6 — 1Technische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany — 2Physics Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy — 3Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia — 4GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany — 5School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia — 6Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
We present temperature and magnetic-field-dependent small-angle neutron scattering data for the ferromagnetic nanocomposite Nanoperm (Fe89Zr7B3Cu1). The spin-misalignment scattering in the approach-to-saturation regime unexpectedly reveals pronounced lobes of high intensity at angles ± 30 − 40∘ relative to the magnetic-field axis. Based on numerical calulations, the four-fold angular symmetry of the scattering pattern can be explained in terms of local spin misalignment, which originates from dipolar stray fields due to the mismatch of the saturation-magnetization values between the bcc Fe particles and the amorphous magnetic matrix.
[1] A. Michels et al., Europhys. Lett. 72, 249 (2005).
[2] C. Vecchini et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., in press (2005).