Local magnetic properties of permalloy microstripes with the different aspe
ct ratio (varying from 2 to 15) were investigated by scanning Kerr microsco
py. The local magnetic properties of the microstripes were discovered to de
pend on their sizes and a location of the test parts in the microstripe. It
was found that the local magnetic properties and the distributions of the
magnetization components of the examined microstripe arrays are mainly dete
rmined by the inhomogeneous dipolar fields. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
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