Helical domain structure in laser-annealed Co-riched amorphous microwires

The magnetic anisotropy of amorphous wires plays a decisive role in the giant magnetoimpedance(GMI) behavior. The magnetoelastic anisotropy caused by internal stress, that are frozen in during the fabrication process, results in an axial easy axis in the core region and in a circular easy axis in the shell region [1]. It leads to a simple domain structure consisting of circular domains in the shell and axial domains in the core. For a more realistic domain structure, it has been suggested that the helical anisotropy exists due to an internal helical stress [2]. (omitted)