High-quality densely packed hexagonal arrays of Ni nanowires have been prepared by filling self-ordered nanopores in alumina membranes. Nanowires with different diameter d ͑18-83 nm͒ and lattice parameter D ͑65 and 105 nm͒ have been studied by atomic force, high resolution scanning electron microscopies, Rutherford backscattering, and vibrating sample magnetometer techniques. Axial loops coercivity and remanence decrease with increasing ratio diameter to lattice parameter, r, until nanowires start to interconnect locally. Additionally, hysteresis of in-plane loops increases with packing factor. In order to interpret the experimental results, multipolar magnetostatic interactions among nanowires with increasing ratio r are considered.
A novel technique for preparing multilayer microwires with controlled magnetic behavior has been developed. This technique involves combining sputtering and electroplating procedures to deposit (magnetic or non‐magnetic) metallic nano‐ and microlayers onto glass‐coated amorphous magnetic microwires. A suitable choice of magnetostrictive amorphous metallic nucleus, together with the specific stresses induced by the deposited layers, allows the tailoring of specific magnetic behavior. In this way, the preparation of multilayer microwires characterized either by square‐shaped hysteretic loops (typical of magnetically bistable microwires with longitudinal easy axes), or by nearly non‐hysteretic loops (for those microwires with a circumferential magnetization easy axes), can be achieved.
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