Correlation of crystalline structure with magnetic and transport properties of glass-coated microwires

Abstract

We overviewed the correlation between the structure, magnetic and transport properties of magnetic microwires prepared by the Taylor-Ulitovsky method involving rapid quenching from the melt and drawing of the composite (metallic core, glass coated) wire. We showed that this method can be useful for the preparation of different families of magnetic microwires: soft magnetic microwires displaying Giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect, semi-hard magnetic microwires, microwires with granular structure exhibiting Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) effect and Heusler-type microwires. Magnetic and transport properties of magnetic microwires depend on the chemical composition of metallic nucleus and on the structural features (grain size, precipitating phases) of prepared microwires. In all families of crystalline microwires, their structure, magnetic and transport properties are affected by internal stresses induced by the glass coating, depending on the quenching rate. Therefore, properties of glass-coated microwires are considerably different from conventional bulk crystalline alloys. ; This work was supported by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) under Projects MAT2013-47231-C2-1-P and MAT2013-47231-C2-2-P. The authors thank for technical and human support provided by SGIker (Magnetic Measurements Gipuzkoa) of UPV/EHU. VZ and AZ wish to acknowledge the support under Program of Mobility of the Researchers of the Basque Government (grants MV-2016-1-0025 and MV-2016-1-0018 respectively).