The Magnetic Properties of Fe/Cu Multilayered Nanowires: The Role of the Number of Fe Layers and Their Thickness

Multi-segmented bilayered Fe/Cu nanowires have been fabricated through the electrodeposition in porous anodic alumina membranes. We have assessed, with the support of micromagnetic simulations, the dependence of fabricated nanostructures' magnetic properties either on the number of Fe/Cu bilaye...

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Published in:Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2021-10, Vol.11 (10), p.2729
Main Authors: Caspani, Sofia, Moraes, Suellen, Navas, David, Proenca, Mariana P, Magalhães, Ricardo, Nunes, Cláudia, Araújo, João Pedro, Sousa, Célia T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aluminum oxide
Antiferromagnetism
Arrays
Bilayers
Coercivity
Diameters
Domain walls
Electrodes
Electrolytes
Extremities
Fe/Cu bilayers
Iron
Magnetic properties
Magnetization
magnetization reversal
Nanotechnology
Nanowires
Nucleation
porous anodic alumina membranes
Propagation
Remanence
Segments
Thickness
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Summary:Multi-segmented bilayered Fe/Cu nanowires have been fabricated through the electrodeposition in porous anodic alumina membranes. We have assessed, with the support of micromagnetic simulations, the dependence of fabricated nanostructures' magnetic properties either on the number of Fe/Cu bilayers or on the length of the magnetic layers, by fixing both the nonmagnetic segment length and the wire diameter. The magnetic reversal, in the segmented Fe nanowires (NWs) with a 300 nm length, occurs through the nucleation and propagation of a vortex domain wall (V-DW) from the extremities of each segment. By increasing the number of bilayers, the coercive field progressively increases due to the small magnetostatic coupling between Fe segments, but the coercivity found in an Fe continuous nanowire is not reached, since the interactions between layers is limited by the Cu separation. On the other hand, Fe segments 30 nm in length have exhibited a vortex configuration, with around 60% of the magnetization pointing parallel to the wires' long axis, which is equivalent to an isolated Fe nanodisc. By increasing the Fe segment length, a magnetic reversal occurred through the nucleation and propagation of a V-DW from the extremities of each segment, similar to what happens in a long cylindrical Fe nanowire. The particular case of the Fe/Cu bilayered nanowires with Fe segments 20 nm in length revealed a magnetization oriented in opposite directions, forming a synthetic antiferromagnetic system with coercivity and remanence values close to zero.
ISSN:2079-4991
2079-4991
DOI:10.3390/nano11102729