Probing magnetic singularities during magnetization process in FePd films

Aurélien Masseboeuf (1, 2) , Thomas Jourdan (3) , Frédéric Lançon (3) , Alain Marty (4) , Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud (2)

1 SP2M - UMR 9002 - Service de Physique des Matériaux et Microstructures
2 INAC - Institut Nanosciences et Cryogénie
3 LSIM - Laboratory of Atomistic Simulation
4 NM - Nanostructures et Magnétisme

We report the use of Lorentz microscopy to observe the domain wall structure during the magnetization process in FePd thin foils. We have focused on the magnetic structure of domain walls of bubble-shaped magnetic domains near saturation. Regions are found along the domain walls where the magnetization abruptly reverses. Multiscale magnetic simulations shown that these regions are vertical Bloch lines (VBL) and the different bubble shapes observed are then related to the inner structure of the VBLs. We were thus able to probe the presence of magnetic singularities as small as Bloch points in the inner magnetization of the domain walls.

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]; Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Aurélien Masseboeuf, Thomas Jourdan, Frédéric Lançon, Alain Marty, Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud. Probing magnetic singularities during magnetization process in FePd films. Applied Physics Letters, 2009, 95 (21), pp.212501. ⟨10.1063/1.3266825⟩. ⟨hal-00419559⟩