Low-temperature magnetization and spin-wave excitation in nanocrystalline ferromagnets
Hui-Qun Guo; K Zaveta; Bao-Gen Shen; Hong-Ying Yang; H Kronmuller; Hui-Qun Guo; Inst. of Phys., Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China; K Zaveta; Inst. of Phys., Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China; Bao-Gen Shen; Inst. of Phys., Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China; Hong-Ying Yang; Inst. of Phys., Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China; H Kronmuller; Inst. of Phys., Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Дата:
1993-09-06
Аннотация:
Magnetization measurements in the temperature range 1.5-300 K have been made on two series of samples of nanocrystalline ferromagnets: Fe<sub>60</sub>Co<sub>30</sub>Zr<sub>10</sub> and Fe<sub>73.5</sub>CuNb<sub>3</sub>Si<sub>13.5</sub>B<sub>9</sub>. It was found that at low temperatures magnetization decreases in accordance with the Heisenberg-model prediction for both series of samples. The coefficients B and C were obtained by fitting M<sub>s</sub>(T) to two terms, T<sup>3/2</sup> and T<sup>5/2</sup>, from the Bloch law. It is shown that for both series of samples the B and C coefficients are larger in the amorphous state than in the nanocrystalline state; larger values of spin-wave stiffness constants D were obtained in nanocrystalline FeCoZr samples with grain size d<40 nm than in the amorphous state; with increasing grain size a much larger value for D was observed for nanocrystalline FeCoZr with a grain size of 140 nm. The results present a reasonable agreement with predictions for nanocrystalline materials with two or three different magnetic phases.
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