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KR: Fachgruppe Kristallographie

KR 5: Poster I – including Multiferroics (MA with DF, DS, KR, TT)

KR 5.19: Poster

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:15–15:15, Poster A

The magneto-impedance of iron whiskers at low temperature — •Matthäus Langosch, Haibin Gao, and Uwe Hartmann — Institute of Experimental Physics, Saarland University, P. O. Box 151150, D-66041, Saarbrücken, Germany

In order to understand all aspects of the AC transport behavior of a ferromagnetic material in an external magnetic field at low temperature, iron single crystals (iron whiskers) were grown as specific samples to investigate the magneto-impedance (MI) effect at 4.2 K. The MI measurements were performed as a function of the magnitude of the driving current and its frequency. The chosen frequencies were up to 100 kHz, where domain wall motion takes place and contributes to the MI effect. The measured low temperature impedance changes are on the order of hundreds of percent and are much higher than that at room temperature. This behavior can mainly be attributed to a large mean free electronic path on the one hand and the skin effect on the other hand.