Abstract—We showed that stress-annealing performed under proper conditions can improve magnetic softness, domain wall (DW) velocity and giant magneto-impedance (GMI) effect of Fe-based microwires. One order of magnitude improvement of GMI ratio and more than 100% increase of DW velocity have been achieved by stress-annealing. Observed dependencies have been related to the domain structure modification evidenced from the evolution of the hysteresis loops upon stress-annealing. We discussed observed results considering that the outer domain shell with transverse magnetic anisotropy affects the travelling DW in a similar way as the application of transverse bias magnetic field. GMI ratio improvement is attributed to beneficial magnetic anisotropy distribution achieved by stress-annealing.
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This work was supported by the Spanish MCIU under PGC2018-099530-B-C31 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE) and by the Government of the Basque Country under PIBA 2018-44 and by the Univ. Basque Country under the scheme of “Ayuda a Grupos Consolidados” (Ref.: GIU-18/192) projects. The authors thank for technical and human support provided by SGIker of UPV/EHU (Medidas Magneticas Gipuzkoa) and European funding (ERDF and ESF).
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Zhukova, V., Corte-Leon, P., González-Legarreta, L. et al. Stress-Induced Magnetic Anisotropy Enabling Engineering of Magnetic Softness GMI Effect and Domain Wall Dynamics of Amorphous Microwires. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 121, 316–321 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X20040183
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