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A Simulation of Rotational Hysteresis Energy Loss in Longitudinal Thin-Film Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Wei Yang  and
David N. Lambeth
Wei Yang
Affiliation:
Data Storage Systems Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
David N. Lambeth
Affiliation:
Data Storage Systems Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Abstract

The field dependence of the rotational hysteresis energy loss was simulated for longitudinal thin-film media with the purpose of examining the validity of this method for measuring the anisotropy field. The field at which the rotational hysteresis vanishes, which is usually taken as the experimentally measured anisotropy field, was found to be smaller than the real anisotropy field when intergranular magnetostatic and exchange interactions are included in the simulations. Hence the rotational hysteresis method may result in an underestimation of the anisotropy field for the films with non-negligible grain interactions. To confirm this experimentally, two CoCrTa films, one with strong in-plane easy axis texture and the other with uniaxially aligned grain easy axes, were prepared under the same conditions. The anisotropy field determined by the rotational hysteresis of the first sample was found to be smaller than the more accurate value obtained from the hard axis hysteresis loop of the second sample.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 517: Symposium F – Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for High Power, High Frequency , January 1998 , 285
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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