• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Imaging of domain wall motion in small magnetic particles through near-field microscopy
  • Beteiligte: Schoenmaker, Jeroen; Domingues dos Santos, Antonio; Souche, Yves; Seabra, Antonio Carlos; Sampaio, Luiz C.
  • Erschienen: AIP Publishing, 2006
  • Erschienen in: Applied Physics Letters
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.2172016
  • ISSN: 0003-6951; 1077-3118
  • Schlagwörter: Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>We report magneto-optical scanning near-field optical microscopy images for 4×4×0.08μm3 and 16×16×0.08μm3 low magnetic anisotropy Co70.4Fe4.6Si15B10 particles. Measuring magneto-optical differential susceptibility we acquired images of the domain wall movement driven by an applied magnetic field with a spatial resolution better than λ∕4. For the 4×4×0.08μm3 sized particle, a sequence of 27 magneto-optical differential susceptibility images reveals the evolution of the magnetic domain structure between positive and negative saturation fields passing through the four-domain flux-closure magnetization structure. On the 16×16×0.08μm3 particle, we studied the role of the oscillating driving field on the susceptibility distribution. Comparing the different magneto-optical differential susceptibility sequences, the role of the shape anisotropy on the field induced domain wall movement is evidenced. Micromagnetic simulations were used to provide a better understanding of the domain wall movement.</jats:p>