Dynamic hysteresis in Finemet thin films

TL;DR

This study investigates the dynamic hysteresis behavior of Finemet thin films using magneto-optical Kerr effect and inductive methods, revealing frequency-dependent variability explained by a domain wall depinning model.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of MOKE and inductive measurements of hysteresis in Finemet films and introduces a simple domain wall depinning model to explain the observed behavior.

Findings

MOKE loops show more variability with frequency than inductive loops.

Both measurement methods exhibit a square root frequency dependence.

The domain wall depinning model effectively explains the experimental results.

Abstract

We performed a series of dynamic hysteresis measurements on three series of Finemet films with composition Fe$_{73.5}$Cu$_1$Nb$_3$Si$_13.5$B$_9$, using both the longitudinal magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) and the inductive fluxometric method. The MOKE dynamic hysteresis loops show a more marked variability with the frequency than the inductive ones, while both measurements show a similar dependence on the square root of frequency. We analyze these results in the frame of a simple domain wall depinning model, which accounts for the general behavior of the data.