Effects of Interlayer Coupling in Elongated Ni80Fe20/Au/Co Nanorings
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Ren, Yang; Adeyeye, Adekunle Olusola; Nam, C. H.; Ross, Caroline A.
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Effects of interlayer coupling in elongated Ni [subscript 80] Fe [subscript 20]/Au/Co nanorings
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We describe the magnetization reversal processes in multilayer elongated Ni80 [subscript 80] Fe20 [subscript 20](10 nm)/Au(t = 0 to 20 nm)/ Co(20 nm)/Si(001) nanorings. For a field applied in-plane along the long axis, the hysteresis loops display a two-step switching for both t = 0 nm and 2 nm, and a three-step switching for t = 10 nm and 20 nm. Onion-to-vortex and vortex-to-reverse onion state transitions occur for a thin Au spacer due to strong exchange coupling between the layers. For a thick Au spacer layer, the Ni80 [subscript 80] Fe20 [subscript 20] layer switches first, then a two-step reversal of the Co, correlated with domain motion in the Ni80 [subscript 80] Fe20 [subscript 20], occurs without the formation of vortex states as a result of magnetostatic interactions. There is a good agreement between the experimental results and micromagnetic simulations.
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2010-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Singapore-MIT Alliance in Research and Technology (SMART)Journal
IEEE transactions on magnetics
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Adeyeye, A.O., C. Nam, and C.A. Ross, with Yang Ren. “Effects of Interlayer Coupling in Elongated \hbox {Ni}_{80}\hbox {Fe}_{20}/\hbox {Au/Co} Nanorings.” Magnetics, IEEE Transactions On 46.6 (2010) : 1906-1909. Copyright © 2010, IEEE
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INSPEC Accession Number: 11313928
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0018-9464