Interaction of magnetostatic excitations with 90° domain walls.pdfVIP

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICAL REVIEW B 74, 100404R 2006 Interaction of magnetostatic excitations with 90° domain walls in micrometer-sized permalloy squares M. Buess,1 J. Raabe,1 K. Perzlmaier,2 C. H. Back,2 and C. Quitmann1 1Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland 2Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany Received 13 June 2006; revised manuscript received 30 August 2006; published 27 September 2006 We investigate the magnetic excitations in soft magnetic squares and in particular the role of domain walls in such Landau flux-closure structures. For this we combine synchrotron-based photoemission electron micros- copy and simulations using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. We show that the 90° Néel walls in such squares act as efficient barriers for magnetic excitations that absorb the incoming energy. Because of the finite elasticity, the absorbed energy leads to oscillations of the domain walls, which subsequently cause emission of sharp wave fronts. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.100404 PACS numbers: 75.40.Gb, 75.75.a, 75.30.Ds Magnetization dynamics is a field that has received con- netic excitations. The strength and sign of the initial torque siderable attention in recent years. Besides its fundamental are determined by the strength and direction of Hp and the interest, magnetization