Modifications of the magnetic properties of ferrites by swift heavy ion irradiations
Single crystal plates of ferrimagnetic yttrium iron garnet (111)-YIG:Si (Y{sub 3}Fe{sub 4.94}Si{sub 0.06}O{sub 12}) and barium hexaferrite (00.1)-BaM (BaFe{sub 12}O{sub 19}) or (00.1)-BaM:Co,Ti (BaFe{sub 9.1}Co{sub 1.4}Ti{sub 1.5}O{sub 19}) are irradiated with swift heavy ions (3.8 GeV {sup 129}Xe or 6.0 GeV {sup 208}Pb) in the electronic slowing down regime, above the threshold ({approximately}20 keV nm{minus}1) of formation of continuous and homogeneous cylindrical amorphous tracks. The modifications of the magnetic properties are studied by {sup 57}Fe Moessbauer spectroscopy and ac magnetic permeability measurements versus ion fluence. In the doped crystals having a planar magnetic anisotropy (YIG:Si and BaM:Co,Ti), the room-temperature Moessbauer spectra show that the magnetization is flipped perpendicularly to the sample plane at a critical amorphous fraction around 30% in both compounds. This corresponds to a 90% drop of the measured in-plane magnetic permeability. No such effect is seen in the undoped BaM samples with the axial [00.1] anisotropy. These data are interpreted by a magnetomechanical effect generated by the stress field induced by the amorphous tracks in the sample plane which flips the magnetization along the track-axis direction when the stress-induced anisotropy constant surpasses the pristine crystal anisotropy constant at the critical amorphous fraction. In the case of YIG:Si single crystal, a track-induced anisotropy field around 0.1 T is deduced from the Moessbauer spectra under a magnetic field applied in the sample (111) plane which rotates the magnetization back to the easy {l_angle}111{r_angle} magnetization axis lying near the sample (111) plane in a reversible manner. The magnetic ordering of amorphous YIG:Si below 70 K is also studied by Moessbauer spectroscopy under high magnetic field (5 T). A two-dimensional Bruggeman model used for the calculation of the permeability of the crystal+amorphous track composites yields track-core radii larger by about 40% than the values previously obtained for both compounds by Moessbauer spectroscopy. We think that such discrepancies show that the samples cannot be treated like standard two-phase composites since the undamaged crystal undergoes a variable stress field depending on the damaged fraction. {copyright} 2001 American Institute of Physics.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 40204341
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 90, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1365056; Othernumber: JAPIAU000090000001000126000001; 056110JAP; PBD: 1 Jul 2001; ISSN 0021-8979
- Publisher:
- The American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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