The structural and magnetic properties of amorphous Cox(Al80Zr20)1-x multilayers with varying thicknesses of the magnetic bilayers have been investigated. The reduction of the thickness causes a reduction of the critical temperature, Tc, this is known as the finite-size effect. The multilayers were grown using DC magnetron sputtering, co-sputtering was used with cobalt and an Al80Zr20 alloy target to create an amorphous CoAlZr alloy. The total thickness of the multilayers was chosen to be held constant at 60 nm and the Al80Zr20 spacing layers were thick enough to suppress any interlayer exchange coupling effects. Estimating the composition using RBS proved difficult with great uncertainties in the measured amount of aluminium in the samples. The amorphousness of the samples was investigated using GIXRD and all measured samples display x-ray amorphousness. Fits of XRR measurements showed that the bilayers displayed a rather large roughness, the origin of this roughness is unknown. MOKE measurements showed that the CoAlZr alloys exhibit a noncollinear spin structure at magnetic bilayer thicknesses of 6 nm and below. The samples’ noncollinear spin structure lead to the loss of remanence. Attempts at measuring the critical temperature with DC measurements using the remanence at zero field were therefore unsuccessful. AC susceptibility with SQUID should allow an accurate measurement of the critical temperature.

Orientador: Paulo Noronha Lisboa Filho / Banca: José Varalda / Banca: José Humberto Dias da Silva / O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia de Materiais, PosMat, tem caráter institucional e integra as atividades de pesquisa em materiais de diversos campi da Unesp / Resumo: As manganitas óxidas apresentam um complexo diagrama de fases magnéticas e muitos dos seus mecanismos fundamentais de interação magnética ainda precisam ser explorados. A nível cristalográfico, as manganitas óxidas de terras-raras têm suas propriedades magnéticas fortemente afetadas pela variação do íon de terra na estrutura cristalina do composto, pela natureza do elemento de transição presente na composição e pela possibilidade deste metal sofrer flutuações de valência. Além disso, a natural ocorrência de vacâncias de oxigênio também presentes nesses materiais cerâmicos são responsáveis por respostas magnéticas distintas. Este trabalho teve como objetivo a síntese, a caracterização estrutural e a caracterização magnética de dois conjuntos de amostras policristalinas da família Er'Co IND. x''Mn IND. 1-x''O IND> 3+ou - δ' preparados pelo Método dos Precursores Poliméricos. O primeiro conjunto apresenta diferentes valores das composições relativas de manganês e cobalto e um segundo conjunto apresenta variações na estequiometria de oxigênio, além dos compostos base ErMn'O POT. 3' e ErCo'O POT. 3'. Para a caracterização cristalográfica, as amostras foram estudadas por difração de Raios X e analisadas através do método de refinamento Rietveld, e a caracterização magnética foi feita por medidas de magnetização em função da temperatura e em função do campo magnético aplicado. Da análise estrutural, tem-se que as amostras produzidas possuíam frações muito pequenas de fases secundárias, sendo que as fases foram quantificadas através do método Rietveld. As medidas magnéticas mostraram a extensa coexistência de diferentes respostas magnéticas para as amostras com composição relativa Co/Mn. / Abstract: Manganese based oxides present a very complex magnetic phase diagram and still have many of their basic physical properties and magnetic interaction to be better explored. At crystallographic level, rare-earth oxide manganites have their magnetic properties strongly effected by tchanges in the rare-earth ion present in the structure, the nature of the transition element in the structure and also by the possibility of electronic valence fluctuations. Furthermore, the occurrence of oxygen vacancies are also responsible for a sort of different magnetic responses. In this work it was studied the synthesis procedure, structural and magnetic characterization of polycrystalline samples of the ErMn'O POT. 3' e ErCo'O POT. 3' family prepared by a polymeric precursors method. A first group of samples presents different manganese and cobalt contents ratio and a second group of the analized samples presents variations in the oxygen stoichiometric. The structural and crystalographic characterization were performed by X ray powder diffraction and further analyzed by the Rietveld refinement method, and the magnetic characteristic were studied by measurements of magnetization as a function of temperature at different values of applied magnetic field. From structural analysis, the produced sample have a small piece of secondary phase, that were quantifity using the Rietveld method. The magnetic measures showed a larger coexistence of differents magnetics interactions to sample with relative composition Co/Mn. / Mestre

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T12:26:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T14:10:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Materiais ferromagnéticos são investigados como possíveis candidatos para aplicações em próteses dentais em substituição aos conectores magnéticos feitos em ligas ferromagnéticas de elevado custo. Neste trabalho, três materiais foram investigados: o aço inoxidável 17-4 PH, confeccionado por moldagem de pós por injeção (PIM), a liga PM2000, obtida por mechanical alloying e endurecida por dispersão de óxidos, e o aço inoxidável 1802, isento de níquel. O ensaio de citotoxicidade in vitro mostrou que nenhum dos três materiais era citotóxico. O comportamento frente à corrosão foi estudado através de curvas de polarização anódica potenciodinâmicas e por espectroscopia de impedância eletroquímica (EIE) em solução tamponada com fosfato (PBS), a 25°C. Como material de referência, foi utilizado o aço inoxidável 316L devido ao seu amplo emprego como biomaterial, principalmente na confecção de próteses ortopédicas. Todos os materiais se mostraram passivos em condições estacionárias, mas apresentaram tendência à corrosão por pite. O que apresentou maior resistência à corrosão por pite foi o PM2000, enquanto o aço 1802 mostrou a maior susceptibilidade a este tipo de corrosão, entre os estudados. Os diagramas de Mott-Schottky indicaram que o filme passivo superficial do aço PM2000 é pelo menos uma ordem de grandeza menos dopado que o filme do aço 316L e, portanto, menos defeituoso. Os resultados apontaram para o PM2000 como um possível candidato para a substituição das ligas nobres ferromagnéticas de alto custo. / Dissertacao (Mestrado) / IPEN/D / Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares - IPEN-CNEN/SP

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京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第22991号 / 理博第4668号 / 新制||理||1670(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学・宇宙物理学専攻 / (主査)教授 柳瀬 陽一, 教授 川上 則雄, 教授 石田 憲二 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / A SIMULINK simulation is presented for an air-gapless motor in this thesis. By considering magnetic saturation effect, four materials are compared and discussed in Chapter three.

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Within in this work, I present the successful synthesis of Ba6Yb2Ti4O17 in a powder form. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first instance in which this has been achieved. I also show that single crystal synthesis experiments using the floating zone synthesis (FZS) technique have yet to produce single crystals. The magnetic characterization of Ba6Yb2Ti4O17 powder is also presented. DC susceptibility measurements reveal no spin freezing or ordering down to 0.5K and inverse susceptibility shows antiferromagnetic coupling between spins. A cold neutron scattering experiment was performed at low temperatures with and without an applied magnetic field on Ba6Yb2Ti4O17 powder. This experiment shows the possibility of spinon-like excitations with a band width of approximately 0.3meV, but this is inconclusive due to the signal to noise ratio. The powder averaged g-tensor for Ba6Yb2Ti4O17 was also experimentally estimated to be approximately 2.4. Further work required to complete this study is also discussed. Synthesis of phase pure ErMgGaO4 has yet to be reported in the literature. Here, I show that small amounts of phase pure polycrystalline ErMgGaO4 can be produced using the FZS technique. Through using FZS, 0.85g of phase pure ErMgGaO4 powder was produced and supplemented using 1.26g of ErMgGaO4 powder containing approximately 1% Er3Ga5O12 magnetic impurity. To estimate the effect of this magnetic impurity on the magnetic signatures exhibited by ErMgGaO4, DC susceptibility measurements were performed between 0.5K and 50K. The magnetic impurity in such small quantity was shown to have negligible effect on the bulk ErMgGaO4 magnetic features. Cold neutron scattering conducted on this material revealed a spinon excitation continuum similar to the one observed in YbMgGaO4.[1] Also present at low temperatures was a diffuse elastic magnetic feature that was used to estimate an order parameter for the material. Analysis of this diffuse feature also revealed a Warren line shape, indicative of two dimensional correlations within the Er3+ triangular planes. Analysis of the spinon excitation continuum revealed a gapless spinon continuum overall. Results presented for both Ba6Yb2Ti4O17 and ErMgGaO4 will be discussed and compared to neutron scattering experiments performed on YbMgGaO4 / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)