N. Yano et al., LARGE BARKHAUSEN DISCONTINUITY OF CO-FE-SI-B AMORPHOUS FILMS SPUTTERED ON POLYMER SUBSTRATE, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 32(5), 1996, pp. 4532-4534
Co-Fe-Si-B films have been prepared using a roll coater and DC magnetr
on sputtering system onto a polyethylene terephthalate substrate. This
thin film exhibited an excellent uniaxial anisotropy introduced by an
asymmetric thermal shrinkage of the substrate. Reversal with a single
layer Barkhausen pulse has been observed in a thin film structure 1mm
by 50mm by 0.65 mu m. Closure domains have been clearly identified at
the film ends. The threshold for the reversal is the coercive force.
The reason for reversal with a single Barkhausen jump is that the long
narrow film geometry has essentially zero demagnetizing field over mo
st of the film. Once the walls start to move through the center portio
n of the film, there is nothing to stop them so the reversal proceeds
with a single large Barkhausen pulse.