The influence of annealing on domain wall propagation in bistable amorphous microwire with unidirectional effect

Abstract

The effect of gradual annealing on the domain wall mobility (velocity), nucleation, critical depinning and propagation fields in amorphous FeSiB microwires has been studied. A new experimental set-up, presented in this paper, allows measurement of average domain wall velocity for four different conditions and detection of the presence of unidirectional effect in wall propagation without manipulation of the microwire. The proposed interpretation is that a domain wall is considered as a relatively long object which can change its axial dimension due to inhomogeneity of damping forces acting on the wall during its propagation. It is demonstrated that unidirectional effect in domain wall propagation can be strongly reduced by annealing the wire at temperatures higher than 350 °C.