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http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JKMS.2003.13.4.176

Magnetic Domain Walls at the Edges of Patterned NiO/NiFe Bilayers  

Hwang, D.G. (상지대학교 컴퓨터전자물리학과)
Lee, S.S. (상지대학교 컴퓨터전자물리학과)
Abstract
The magnetic domain walls at the edges of a large patterned and exchanged-biased NiO(10-60 nm)/NiFe(10 nm) bilayers and their motions with applied field were investigated by magnetic force microscopy. Three kinds of domain walls, namely, head-to-head zig-zag and tail-to-tail zig-zag Bloch walls and straight Neel walls were found at specific edges of the unidirectional biased NiO(30 nm)/NiFe(10 nm) bilayer having the exchange biasing field (H$\sub$ex/) of 21 Oe. No walls were observed for the strong exchange-biased bilayer (60 nm NiO, H$\sub$ex/ = 75 Oe), while the amplitude of the zig-zag domain increased with decreasing exchange biasing. This may be explained by mutual restraint between H$\sub$ex/ and the demagnetization field of edge. We similarly investigated the magnetization reversal process, the subsequent motion of the walls and identified the pinning and nucleation sites during reversal.
Keywords
NiO; MFM; Neel wall; Bloch wall; Exchange biased bilayer; NiO; MFM; Neel wall; Block wall.;
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