• 한국자기학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.176-181
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• 2003

금속마스크에 의해 패턴된 교환결합 이중박막 NiO(10∼60 nm)/NiFe(10 nm)의 모서리에서 발생한 여러 종류의 자구벽(magnetic domain wall)을 MFM(magnetic_ force microscopy)로 측정하였다. 박막의 모서리 경계선이 교환결합이방성 방향과 같은 방향일 때는 직선모양의 Neel 자구벽이 측정되었으며, 경계면이 이방성방향과 수직인 경우에는 zigzag Bloch 자구벽이 발견되었다. 이러한 자구벽은 NiO(60 nm)인 경우에는 교환결합세기(H$_{ex}$ = 75 Oe)가 박막경계면에서 발생한 반자장(demagnetization field) 세기보다 크기 때문에 발생하지 않았고, 교환결합세기가 약한 NiO(30 nm, H$_{ex}$ = 21 Oe)를 갖는 이중박막에서는 발견되었다. 이들 자구벽이 외부 자기장의 변화에 따라 움직이는 자화반전과정을 측정하기위해 $\pm$300 Oe까지 자기장을 가하면서 MFM을 측정하였다.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2009

Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) magnetometry was used to investigate magnetization reversal dynamics in 30-nm NiFe/15-nm FeMn, 15-nm FeMn/30-nm CoFe bilayers, and 30-nm NiFe/(2,10)-nm FeMn/30-nm CoFe trilayers. The in-plane magnetization components of each ferromagnetic layer, both parallel and perpendicular to the applied field, were separately determined by measuring the longitudinal and transverse MOKE hysteresis loops from both the front and back sides of the film for an oblique incident s-polarized beam. The magnetization of the FeMn/CoFe bilayer was reversed abruptly and symmetrically through nucleation and domain wall propagation, while that of the NiFe/FeMn bilayer was reversed asymmetrically with a dominant rotation. In the NiFe/FeMn/CoFe trilayers, the magnetic reversal of the two ferromagnetic layers proceeded via nucleation and domain wall propagation for 2-nm FeMn, but via asymmetric rotation for 10-nm FeMn. The exchange-biased ferromagnetic layers showed the magnetization reversal along the same path in the film plane for the decreasing and increasing field branches from transverse MOKE hysteresis loops, which can be qualitatively explained by the theoretical model of the exchange-biased ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic systems.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.94-97
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• 2002

The dependence on nickel oxide thickness and a ferromagnetic layer thickness in unidirectional and isotropic exchange-coupled NiO/NiFe(Fe) bilayer films was investigated by magnetic force microscopy to better understand the relation between magnetic domain structure and exchange biasing at microscopic length scales. As the NiO thickness increased, the domain structure of unidirectional biased films formed smaller and more complex in-plane domains. By contrast, for the isotropically coupled films, large domains generally formed with increasing NiO thickness including a cross type domain with out-of plane magnetization orientation. The density of the cross domain is proportional to exchange biasing field, and the fact that the domain mainly originated from the strongest exchange coupled region was confirmed by imaging in an applied external field during a magnetization cycle.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.113-117
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• 2005

Some polycrystalline ferromagnetic mms are composed of continuously connected nanometer scale islands with random crystallite orientations. The nanometer perturbations of the mm introduce a large number of nearly degenerate local field configurations that are indistiguishable on a macroscopic scale. As a first step, this situation is modelled as a thin ferromagnetic disc coupled by exchange and dipole interactions to a homogeneous ferromagnetic plane, where the disc and plane have different easy axes. The model is solved to find the partial $N\acute{e}el$ domain walls that minimize the magnetic energy. The two solutions give a bistable configuration that, for appropriate geometries, provides an important microsopic ferromagnetic degree of freedom for the mm. These results are used to interpret recent measurements of exchange biased bilayer films.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.224-227
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• 2004

교환결합된 NiFe/FeMn 이중박막에서 Laser 열처리를 통하여 국소적인 자화반전을 연구하였다. 600 G의 외부 자기장을 시편에 가하면서 DPSS Laser로 자화 반전시켰으며, 300 mW에서 15분 동안 국소적인 부분을 조사하였다. 국소적으로 자화반전 시킨 박막을 다시 원래 방향으로 역 반전시켜 자기저항(MR)곡선 피크가 감소된 것을 관찰하였다. 이는 직접적으로 Laser를 가한 박막의 손상과 계면에서 내부 확산에 의한 것으로 생각된다 국소적인 반전 자화의 자구구조는 MU을 통하여 관찰하였다. 자화반전 영역에서 새로운 자구벽을 형성하였으며, Laser가 조사된 영역근처에서 자구벽이 형성된 것을 관찰하였다.