Orthogonal Susceptibility of Permalloy Films

Abstract
The switching response of uniaxial 1000‐Å nonmagnetostrictive permalloy films in the orthogonal‐drive‐field mode has been studied. The orthogonal susceptibility is defined as the ratio of the change in the easy‐axis (longitudinal) magnetization to the change in easy‐axis field. The susceptibility is derived for two cases: first, with only angular dispersion, and second, with both angular and magnitude dispersion. These derivations show that the orthogonal susceptibility is primarily determined by the angular dispersion for well‐oriented films. Experimental results are given which confirm these derivations. This analysis was stimulated by the need for a better quantitative analysis of the films used in low‐field (∼10−5 Oe) magnetometers.

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