Thesis (M.S.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2009. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2009. / Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed November 17, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-84).

Μελετάμε, χρησιμοποιώντας υπολογισμούς ηλεκτρονικής δομής από πρώτες αρχές, τις μαγνητικές ιδιότητες διάφορων κραμάτων (BiFeO3, BiMnO3 και Bi2MnFeO6) και πολυστρωμάτων είτε με ημιαγώγιμο υπόστρωμα (InP/BiFeO3) είτε με υπόστρωμα μετάλλων μετάβασης (V/BiFeO3 και Fe/BiFeO3). Όλα τα κράματα και τα πολυστρώματα τα οποία μελετήθηκαν είχαν δομή σφαλερίτη (zinc – blend). Τα υλικά αυτά ανήκουν στην κατηγορία των μαγνητοηλεκτρικών υλικών, μία κατηγορία με έντονο επιστημονικό ενδιαφέρον λόγω των πολλαπλών πλεονεκτημάτων που παρουσιάζει η χρησιμοποίησή τους σε μαγνητοηλεκτρικές εφαρμογές, π.χ. σε σκληρούς δίσκους και σε μνήμες ηλεκτρονικών υπολογιστών. Τα παραπάνω υλικά μελετήθηκαν για διαφορετικές μαγνητικές δομές. Για το BiFeO3 θεωρήσαμε τρεις πιθανές αντισιδηρομαγνητικές διαμορφώσεις και την σιδηρομαγνητική λύση. Επίσης μεταβάλαμε την πλεγματική σταθερά της μοναδιαίας κυψελίδας από 5.6 a.u. έως και 8.1 a.u.. Για το BiMnO3 μελετήθηκαν τρεις αντισιδηρομαγνητικές και μία σιδηρομαγνητική διαμόρφωση για δύο τιμές της πλεγματικής σταθεράς: 14 a.u. (ή 3.703 Å) και 14.7 a.u. (ή 3.888 Å). Για το Bi2MnFeO6 υπάρχουν τρεις διαφορετικές περιπτώσεις ανάλογα με τις θέσεις των ατόμων Fe και Mn, και για κάθε περίπτωση έχουν μελετηθεί πέντε αντισιδηρομαγνητικές διαμορφώσεις και μία σιδηρομαγνητική, για τις ίδιες πλεγματικές σταθερές με το BiMnO3. Στα πολυστρώματα InP/BiFeO3 υπάρχουν τέσσερις περιπτώσεις των οποίων η διαφορά βρίσκεται στις θέσεις των ατόμων In και P στο υπόστρωμα. Τέλος, στα πολυστρώματα V/BiFeO3 και Fe/BiFeO3 μελετήθηκαν πέντε διαφορετικές περιπτώσεις, των οποίων η διαφορά εντοπίζεται στην πλεγματική σταθερά. Οι προσομοιώσεις μας έδειξαν ότι ενώ τα κρυσταλλικά κράματα παρουσιάζουν έντονες μαγνητικές ιδιότητες, στην περίπτωση των πολυστρωματικών υμενίων, η μείωση σε διαστάσεις οδηγεί σε σημαντική υποβάθμιση των μαγνητικών ιδιοτήτων και σε μερικές περιπτώσεις σε σχεδόν μη – μαγνητικές λύσεις. / We study, using first – principles electronic structure calculations, the magnetic properties of various alloys such as BiFeO3, BiMnO3, Bi2MnFeO6 and multilayers with a semiconducting (InP/BiFeO3) or a transition metal (V/BiFeO3 and Fe/BiFeO3) substrate. All the previous alloys and multilayers have a zinc – blend structure. These materials are known as magnetoelectric materials, a category which has attracted intense scientific interest due to the advantages of implementing these materials in spintronic devices e.g. computer's hard disks and RAM memories. These materials were studied for various magnetic structures. For BiFeO3 we considered three antiferromagnetic and a ferromagnetic configurations. We also varied the lattice constant of the unit cell from 5.6 a.u. to 8.1 a.u.. For BiMnO3 we studied three antiferromagnetic and one ferromagnetic configurations for two values of the lattice constant: 14 a.u. (or 3.703 Å) and 14.7 a.u. (or 3.888 Å). For Bi2MnFeO6 there are three different cases depending on the positions of Fe and Mn atoms, and in each studied case five antiferromagnetic and one ferromagnetic configurations were taken into account, concerning InP/BiFeO3 multilayers there are four cases where the difference concern the positions of In and P in the substrate. Finally, the multilayers V/BiFeO3 and Fe/BiFeO3 were studied for five different values of the lattice constant. Our simulations show that although the bulk alloys exhibit considerable magnetic properties, the latter are seriously downgraded for multilayers and in same casses magnetism almost vanishes.

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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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)

This dissertation presents methods for wideband characterization and modeling of magnetic materials and structures over a wide frequency range (dc to a few GHz). A method for modeling the thick film inductor structures at high frequencies is presented in this dissertation. The thick film inductor under test is printed and located in shunt connection at the end of a reference transmission line. Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) technique is used to measure the response waveform from the inductor under test. The response from a short circuit at the location of the inductor is acquired as the reference waveform. The two acquired waveforms are then transformed into the frequency domain using the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm (FFT). The reflection coefficient is then computed as the ratio between the Fourier Transforms of the response and reference waveforms. From the information contained, the complex impedance of the structure under study can be calculated. This information is used for modeling that structure by fitting the data to the network model using the computer network analysis program. Experimental and simulated response waveforms are compared and brought to a close match by changing the model components values. A cavity-like sample holder filled with ferrite material ls proposed in this dissertation to measure the complex permeability of the magnetic material filling this cavity. The cavity walls are deposited on a coaxially shaped sample using thick film techniques. The reflection coefficient from the cavity under study is measured by adapting the cavity to the end of a transmission line. The full field analysis of this proposed configuration is used to determine a relationship between the complex permeability of the ferrite material and the measured reflection coefficient. The method of moments ls used to achieve this task. Computer simulation experiments are performed to test the sensitivity of the technique and to predict the performance over the desired frequency range. Actual experimentation as well as verifications of these measurements are conducted to verify the merit of the proposed technique. / Ph. D. / incomplete_metadata