Influence of Thermal Deformation on Exchange Bias in FeGa/IrMn Bilayers Grown on Flexible Polyvinylidene Fluoride Membranes

  • Yao Zhang
  • , Qingfeng Zhan*
  • , Xin Rong
  • , Huihui Li
  • , Zhenghu Zuo
  • , Yiwei Liu
  • , Baomin Wang
  • , Run Wei Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We investigated the influence of thermal deformation on the magnetic properties of flexible FeGa/IrMn exchange-biased (EB) bilayers grown on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes with the pinning direction parallel to the thermal deformation directions α31 and α32 of PVDF. Because with increasing temperature, the uniaxial anisotropy is reoriented from the α32 to α31 directions by the thermally induced compressive strain along the α32 direction, both the coercive field Hc and the loop squareness Mr/Ms of FeGa/IrMn bilayers display a complex temperature-dependent behavior. The EB field Hc decreases with increasing temperature. A modified Stoner-Wohlfarth model was employed to account for the temperature dependence of magnetic properties in the flexible FeGa/IrMn bilayers.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7406715
JournalIEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume52
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • exchange bias
  • flexible magnetoelectronics
  • temperature modulation
  • thermal expansion

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