Effects of stress on the hysteresis loss and coercivity of ferromagnetic film

Abstract

The JA-SW hybrid model is extended in order to include the strain or stress anisotropy. With this improved model, a simulation is carried out to study the effects of stress on magnetic hysteresis loss and coercivity of ferromagnetic film. It is shown that the hysteresis loss and coercivity are related to the external field orientation, the stress intensity and the stress direction. Hysteresis loss, or the coercive force does not entirely monotonially increase with the change of stress intensity. For example, when the external field is parallel to the easy axis, a valley appears in the curve. In addition, stress will cause the peak offset of the coercivity curve as the orientation angle of the external field changes. Extensive comparisons of results with literature data are made and the differences between them are explained.