Magnetic Structure And Magnetization Process Of The Glass-Coated Fe-Based Amorphous Microwire

Magnetic structure of amorphous Fe73,9B13,2Si10,9C2 microwires was studied. The magnetic structure of the as-prepared microwire was found to consist of a magnetic core and a ring-shaped surface magnetic layer made up by radially magnetized small ring domains. The geometric characteristics of microwire magnetic structure were first experimentally determined. The width of the surface ring domains is about 5 mu m, and the thickness of the surface magnetic layer is 2 mu m. The magnetic core of the as-prepared microwire has been shown to consist of extensive domains, no less than 500 mu m in size, and their spontaneous magnetization vector deviating from the microwire axis. The effect of magnetostriction on magnetic structure and its changes induced by magnetization has been established. The magnetic structure model for microwires with positive magnetostriction constant is proposed. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3702448]