Micromagnetic modeling of experimental hysteresis loops for heterogeneous electrodeposited cobalt films

Poduska, Kristin M. and Seymour, Matthew P. and Wilding, Ian and Xu, Ben and Mercer, Jason I. and Plumer, Martin L. and Yethiraj, Anand and Lierop, Johan van (2013) Micromagnetic modeling of experimental hysteresis loops for heterogeneous electrodeposited cobalt films. Applied Physics Letters, 102. ISSN 1077-3118

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Abstract

Micromagnetic modeling provides a realistic description of the magnetic switching behavior in electrodeposited Co thin films that are either uniform (untemplated) or templated with an array of sub-micron spheres. Quantitative agreement between experimental results and simulations based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations is achieved for both in-plane and perpendicular MH loops at two temperatures. By accounting for the sweep-rate dependence in coercivity values from simulated loops (with sweep rates 104–10�1 Oe/ns) and then extrapolating to the experimental regime (measurement times of 10–100 s), a self-consistent set of microscopic parameters is established to accommodate the complexity of the electrodeposited films.

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