Monte Carlo simulations of magnetization state of ellipsoidal CoCu particles in disordered self-assembled arrays

Journal of Materials Research Volume: 31 Issue: 14 Pages: 2058-2064 Published: 2016

Schematic illustration of the assemblies of (a) elongated ellipsoids and (b) half-ellipsoids used to model the morphology of the Samples A and B, respectively. (c) Convention used to define the angular coordinates between film normal N and major axis (dashed line) of an ellipsoidal particle, magnetization M and applied field H.

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Writers: V.Z.C. Paes, J. Varalda, P. Schio, J.T. Matsushima, E.C. Pereira, A.J.A. de Oliveira and D.H. Mosca

Keywords: magnetization; particles

Abstract: Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of the magnetization states of disordered self-assembled arrays of particles consisting of Co87Cu13 alloy are investigated. The assemblies of magnetic particles with ellipsoidal shapes and volumes ranging from 5 to 50 µm3 exhibit densities of about 3 × 106particles per mm2. Magnetization was obtained in the framework of Stoner–Wohlfarth model extended to include phenomenological contributions of second-order magnetic anisotropy and coercivity mechanism with distinct configuration of easy axes of magnetization. MC simulations for assemblies containing no more than 100 particles with negligible magnetic interaction between each other and exhibiting saturation magnetization and magnetic anisotropy constant values close to those found for cobalt in bulk are in good agreement with experimental results. We evaluate and validate our computational modeling using samples having particles with different sizes and different angular distributions of the easy axis of magnetization. A simple numerical approach with minimum of parameters was used to take into account the coercive fields of the samples. Reasonable simulation results are generated based on realistic size distributions and angular distributions of easy axis of magnetization.

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