Multiscale Magnetic Anisotropy in Amorphous Ferromagnetic Ribbon: An Example of FeCuNdSiB Alloy

An understanding of the magnetic properties in an amorphous alloy requires comprehensive studies of magnetic anisotropy at various scales. In this paper such a study is carried out using amorphous ribbons FeCuNbSiB. The magnetic anisotropy associated with the rolling axis of ribbons does not affect hysteresis loop measurements, but the disappearance of a fingerprint-like pattern in the domain structure occurs in different fields when they are applied along and transverse the rolling axis. A correlation between the local magnetic anisotropy constant and the nanoscale within which the local easy axis is ordered was found.