“…When the applied field is parallel to the nanowire's axis, hcp Co nanowire arrays have a coercivity of 520 Oe in our experiments. This result is almost the same as the reported values of the coercivity for hcp Co nanowires with the caxis perpendicular to the nanowire's axis [8,10,25], and lower than the reported values of the coercivity for hcp Co nanowires with the c-axis parallel to the nanowire's axis [10,26,27]. Some works [8,9,27] have reported that the effective anisotropy of the magnetic nanowire arrays comes from the competition between the magnetocrystalline anisotropy and the shape anisotropy.…”