Effect of stress-induced anisotropy on high frequency magnetoimpedance effect of Fe and Co-rich glass-coated microwires

The influence of stress-annealing on the magnetic softness and the magnetoimpedance effect of Fe-and Co-based glass-coated microwires is studied. As-prepared Co-rich glass-coated microwires present better magnetic softness and rather higher magnetoimpedance ratio with a double-peak dependence, typical for materials with transverse magnetic anisotropy. As-prepared Fe-based microwires present a rectangular hysteresis loop with a coercivity an order of magnitude higher and a magnetoimpedance ratio of an order of magnitude lower. Stress-annealing of Co- and Fe-based glass-coated microwire allows considerable magnetoimpedance ratio increasing. The impact of stress-annealing is especially pronounced in a Fe-based microwire, where transverse magnetic anisotropy, large (an order of magnitude) improvement of the magnetic softness and magnetoimpedance ratio are observed. In Co-based microwire a magnetoimpedance ratio improvement for short annealing time and a change of hysteresis loop from linear to rectangular are observed. Observed stress-induced anisotropy and related changes of magnetic properties are discussed considering internal stresses relaxation and "back-stresses". Obtained experimental results yield new and important insights into the influence of stress-induced magnetic anisotropy on the magnetoimpedance effect and hysteresis loops of glass-coated microwires. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.