Orientadores: Marcelo Knobel, Daniela Zanchet / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T12:53:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_ElvisLirada_M.pdf: 8983880 bytes, checksum: 9cf84b0bedd17ff35f94bf813d128441 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Os arranjos de nanofios magnéticos tem atraído um interesse considerável da comunidade científica, motivado principalmente pela sua utilização como sistemas-modelo e na possível aplicação em mídias magnéticas de alta densidade de informação. O comportamento magnético macroscópico desses sistemas é fortemente dependente das anisotropias magnéticas efetivas (determinadas principalmente pelas contribuições das anisotropias de forma, magnetocristalina e magnetoelástica). Neste trabalho realizamos um estudo completo das propriedades magnéticas de nanofios magnéticos de Ni e Co, variando o comprimento dos nanofios e a temperatura das amostras. Os nanofios são obtidos por eletrodeposição em nanoporos de membranas de alumina preparadas por um duplo processo de anodização em substratos de alumínio. A caracterização estrutural dos nanofios foi feita por microscopia eletrônica de varredura de alta resolução e microscopia de força magnética e revela que os arranjos de nanofios estão organizados em uma rede hexagonal onde possuem diametros de aproximadamente 35 nm e a distância entre os nanofios de aproximadamente 105 nm. O comprimento dos nanofios varia de aproximadamente 560 nm até 2250 nm. Observamos uma mudança do eixo fácil de magnetização da direção paralela ao eixo dos nanofios na temperatura ambiente para direção perpendicular ao eixo dos nanofios em baixas temperaturas. Analisamos a dependência da remanência reduzida e da coercividade em relação à temperatura e verificamos que as amostras apresentam uma temperatura de cruzamento entre as remanências reduzidas com campo aplicado paralela e perpendicularmente ao eixo dos nanofios, que varia de acordo com o comprimento dos nanofios. Interpretamos nossos resultados em termos de uma competição entre a anisotropia de forma, que tende orientar a magnetização na direção paralela ao eixo dos nanofios, e uma anisotropia dependente da temperatura, que tenta alinhar a magnetizaçao na direção perpendicular ao eixo dos nanofios. O mecanismo utilizado para tentar explicar de maneira qualitativa os resultados que observamos, ao diminuirmos a temperatura da amostra, origina-se da tensão provocada pela alumina sobre os nanofios, em decorrência dos diferentes coeficientes de expansão térmica desses materiais, que induz uma anisotropia magnetoelástica perpendicular ao eixo dos nanofios / Abstract: Arrays of magnetic nanowires have attracted considerable interest, mainly motivated by their use as model systems and by possible applications in high-density magnetic information storage. The macroscopic magnetic behavior of such systems is strongly dependent on the effective magnetic anisotropy (mainly determined by shape and crystalline contributions). In this work, we carry out a systematic study of the magnetic properties on highly-ordered magnetic arrays of Co and Ni nanowires as functions of length of the nanowires and temperature. Nanowires were obtained by electrodeposition into nanopores of alumina membranes prepared by a two-step anodization process from pure aluminium. Structural studies were performed by high resolution scanning electron microscopy and magnetic force microscopy. The images revealed uniform arrays of nanowires with diameter of 35 nm, and with hexagonal symmetry arrangement with lattice constant (or inter-nanowire distance) of 105 nm. The nanowires length varies between 560 nm and 2250 nm. We observed a change in the magnetic easy axis from parallel to the axis wires at room temperature to transverse to the wire axis at low temperatures. We analysed the temperature dependence of the reduced remanence and coercive field we verified that the samples present a crossover temperature of reduced remanence with magnetic field applied both perpendicular and parallel to the nanowires axis that varies with nanowires length. We interpreted our results in terms of a competition between the shape anisotropy of the wires, which tends to align the magnetization along the wires axis and the temperature dependent magnetic anisotropy, which tends to orient the magnetization transverse to the wires axis. The mechanism which can qualitatively explain the observed results as a function of temperature is an induced anisotropy of magnetoelastic origin transversal to the nanowires axis, caused by strains and stresses, due to the different thermal expansion coefficient of nanowires and the alumina matrix, respectively / Mestrado / Materiais Magneticos e Propriedades Magneticas / Mestre em Física

Nutzbare Energie ist ein knappes Gut. Aus ökonomischen und ökologischen Gründen wird die effiziente und nachhaltige Nutzung der verfügbaren Energie angestrebt. Wird Energie in elektrischer Form bereitgestellt oder transportiert, kommt der Minimierung der Verluste an elektrotechnischen Anlagen oder Bauelementen eine grundlegende Bedeutung zu. So werden beispielsweise Transformatorenkomponenten und Verstärkerelemente aus weichmagnetischen Werkstoffen mit geringem Ummagnetisierungsverlust gefertigt. In dieser Arbeit wird der Zusammenhang zwischen der magnetischen Mikrostruktur und dem magnetischen Ummagnetisierungsverlust nanokristalliner Ringbandkerne untersucht. Der Einfluss von Stärke und Lage einer induzierten Anisotropie wird anhand induktiver Hysteresemessung und simultaner Beobachtung magnetischer Domänen mit stroboskopischer Kerrmikroskopie charakterisiert.

In this thesis multidomain states in magnetically ordered systems with competing long-range and short range interactions are under consideration. In particular, in antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy unusual multidomain textures can be stabilized due to a close competition between long-range demagnetization fields and short-range interlayer exchange coupling. These spatially inhomogeneous magnetic textures of regular multidomain configurations and irregular networks of topological defects as well as complex magnetization reversal processes are described in the frame of the phenomenological theory of magnetic domains. Using a modified model of stripe domains it is theoretically shown that the competition between dipolar coupling and antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling causes an instability of ferromagnetically ordered multidomain states and results in three possible ground states: ferromagnetic multidomain state, antiferromagnetic homogeneous and antiferromagnetic multidomain states. The presented theory allows qualitatively to define the area of existence for each of these states depending on geometrical and material parameters of multilayers. In antiferromagnetically coupled superlattices with perpendicular anisotropy an applied magnetic bias field stabilizes specific multidomain states, so-called metamagnetic domains. A phenomenological theory developed in this thesis allows to derive the equilibrium sizes of metamagnetic stripe and bubble domains as functions of the antiferromagnetic exchange, the magnetic bias field, and the geometrical parameters of the multilayer. The magnetic phase diagram includes three different types of metamagnetic domain states, namely multidomains in the surface layer and in internal layers, and also mixed multidomain states may arise. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of step-like magnetization reversal shows a good agreement between the theory and experiment. Analytical equations have been derived for the stray field components of these multidomain states in perpendicular multilayer systems. In particular, closed expressions for stray fields in the case of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic stripes are presented. The theoretical approach provides a basis for the analysis of magnetic force microscopy (MFM) images from this class of nanomagnetic systems. Peculiarities of the MFM contrast have been calculated for realistic tip models. These characteristic features in the MFM signals can be employed for the investigations of the different multidomain modes. The methods developed for stripe-like magnetic domains are employed to calculate magnetization processes in twinned microstructures of ferromagnetic shape-memory materials. The remarkable phenomenon of giant magnetic field induced strain transformations in such ferromagnetic shape memory alloys as Ni-Mn-Ga, Ni-Mn-Al, or Fe-Pd arises as an interplay of two physical effects: (i) A martensitic transition creating competing phases, i.e. crystallographic domains or variants, which are crystallographically equivalent but have different orientation. (ii) High uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy that pins the magnetization vectors along certain directions of these martensite variants. Then, an applied magnetic field can drive a microstructural transformation by which the martensitic twins, i.e. the different crystallographic domains, are redistributed in the martensitic state. Within the phenomenological (micromagnetic) theory the equilibrium parameters of multivariant stripe patterns have been derived as functions of the applied field for an extended single-crystalline plate. The calculated magnetic phase diagram allows to give a detailed description of the magnetic field-driven martensitic twin rearrangement in single crystals of magnetic shape-memory alloys. The analysis reveals the crucial role of preformed twins and of the dipolar stray-field energy for the magnetic-field driven transformation process in magnetic shape-memory materials. This work has been done in close collaboration with a group of experimentalists from Institute of Metallic Materials of IFW Dresden, Germany and San Jose Research Center of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, United States. Comparisons between theoretical and experimental data from this cooperation are presented throughout this thesis as vital part of my work on these different subjects.

Nutzbare Energie ist ein knappes Gut. Aus ökonomischen und ökologischen Gründen wird die effiziente und nachhaltige Nutzung der verfügbaren Energie angestrebt. Wird Energie in elektrischer Form bereitgestellt oder transportiert, kommt der Minimierung der Verluste an elektrotechnischen Anlagen oder Bauelementen eine grundlegende Bedeutung zu. So werden beispielsweise Transformatorenkomponenten und Verstärkerelemente aus weichmagnetischen Werkstoffen mit geringem Ummagnetisierungsverlust gefertigt. In dieser Arbeit wird der Zusammenhang zwischen der magnetischen Mikrostruktur und dem magnetischen Ummagnetisierungsverlust nanokristalliner Ringbandkerne untersucht. Der Einfluss von Stärke und Lage einer induzierten Anisotropie wird anhand induktiver Hysteresemessung und simultaner Beobachtung magnetischer Domänen mit stroboskopischer Kerrmikroskopie charakterisiert.

In this thesis multidomain states in magnetically ordered systems with competing long-range and short range interactions are under consideration. In particular, in antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy unusual multidomain textures can be stabilized due to a close competition between long-range demagnetization fields and short-range interlayer exchange coupling. These spatially inhomogeneous magnetic textures of regular multidomain configurations and irregular networks of topological defects as well as complex magnetization reversal processes are described in the frame of the phenomenological theory of magnetic domains. Using a modified model of stripe domains it is theoretically shown that the competition between dipolar coupling and antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling causes an instability of ferromagnetically ordered multidomain states and results in three possible ground states: ferromagnetic multidomain state, antiferromagnetic homogeneous and antiferromagnetic multidomain states. The presented theory allows qualitatively to define the area of existence for each of these states depending on geometrical and material parameters of multilayers. In antiferromagnetically coupled superlattices with perpendicular anisotropy an applied magnetic bias field stabilizes specific multidomain states, so-called metamagnetic domains. A phenomenological theory developed in this thesis allows to derive the equilibrium sizes of metamagnetic stripe and bubble domains as functions of the antiferromagnetic exchange, the magnetic bias field, and the geometrical parameters of the multilayer. The magnetic phase diagram includes three different types of metamagnetic domain states, namely multidomains in the surface layer and in internal layers, and also mixed multidomain states may arise. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of step-like magnetization reversal shows a good agreement between the theory and experiment. Analytical equations have been derived for the stray field components of these multidomain states in perpendicular multilayer systems. In particular, closed expressions for stray fields in the case of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic stripes are presented. The theoretical approach provides a basis for the analysis of magnetic force microscopy (MFM) images from this class of nanomagnetic systems. Peculiarities of the MFM contrast have been calculated for realistic tip models. These characteristic features in the MFM signals can be employed for the investigations of the different multidomain modes. The methods developed for stripe-like magnetic domains are employed to calculate magnetization processes in twinned microstructures of ferromagnetic shape-memory materials. The remarkable phenomenon of giant magnetic field induced strain transformations in such ferromagnetic shape memory alloys as Ni-Mn-Ga, Ni-Mn-Al, or Fe-Pd arises as an interplay of two physical effects: (i) A martensitic transition creating competing phases, i.e. crystallographic domains or variants, which are crystallographically equivalent but have different orientation. (ii) High uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy that pins the magnetization vectors along certain directions of these martensite variants. Then, an applied magnetic field can drive a microstructural transformation by which the martensitic twins, i.e. the different crystallographic domains, are redistributed in the martensitic state. Within the phenomenological (micromagnetic) theory the equilibrium parameters of multivariant stripe patterns have been derived as functions of the applied field for an extended single-crystalline plate. The calculated magnetic phase diagram allows to give a detailed description of the magnetic field-driven martensitic twin rearrangement in single crystals of magnetic shape-memory alloys. The analysis reveals the crucial role of preformed twins and of the dipolar stray-field energy for the magnetic-field driven transformation process in magnetic shape-memory materials. This work has been done in close collaboration with a group of experimentalists from Institute of Metallic Materials of IFW Dresden, Germany and San Jose Research Center of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, United States. Comparisons between theoretical and experimental data from this cooperation are presented throughout this thesis as vital part of my work on these different subjects.