Magneto-elastic anisotropy of ferromagnetic glass-coated microwires

One of the interests of ferromagnetic glass-coated microwires is the possibility to engineer their anisotropy thanks to magneto-elastic effects. In this paper, we focus on the link between the stress models that have been established for these materials and the magneto-elastic behavior. We use the hysteresis loops under stress of microwires to determine their magneto-elastic properties. We compare the experimental magnetic anisotropy of many samples with different metallic core diameter and glass thickness with the magnetic anisotropy estimated using the magneto-striction coefficient and the total stress in the microwires: internal stress (coming from the elaboration process) and external stress (applied during the measurement). (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.