Comparison of ferromagnetic resonance between amorphous wires and microwires

Measurements of magnetoimpedance in amorphous wires and microwires at the GHz region are presented here. The maxima observed in the magnetoimpedance of different samples in the high frequency range are attributed to the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) that occurs when a sample is submitted to a longitudinal static magnetic field and an oscillating transversal field. While the appearance of a peak on the resistance and the drop of the inductance is explained by means of FMR, the dependence of the width of that resonance with different parameters (magnetic field, stress distribution, sample size, etc.) is not clearly understood, and therefore additional works to explain the value of the resonance width are needed. It is interesting to consider firstly, the influence of the diameter of the sample and thus the stress distribution on the FMR. The size and position of the FMR is found to be completely different for diameters ranging from 24 to 171 μm. The dependence of the frequency value at which the peak of the resistance is found can be explained by the different values of the anisotropy field in the sample. The width of the FMR changes drastically with the diameter of the sample and with the applied magnetic field and they will be discussed in this paper.

Research highlights
► Measurement of the FMR in wires and microwires
► Comparison of the FMR width in both types of samples.
► Correlation of the FMR to intrinsic properties as stress distribution.