We have investigated the microwave properties of epoxy-based composites containing melt-extracted Co69.25Fe4. 25B13.5-xSi13Nbx (x=0, 1, 3) microwires of various length annealed using a so-called combined current-modulation annealing (CCMA) technique. The observation of a double-peak feature in the permittivity spectra is believed due to the coexistence of the amorphous phase and a small amount of nanocrystallites on the wires with a high Nb content. CCMA was found to be favorable for a better-defined circular anisotropy of microwires and had suppressed the highfrequency peak due to residual stress relief for the composite with 25 mm long wires. Neither the shift of resonance peak nor the characteristic double peak feature was detected for composites containing as-cast 15 or 35 mm long microwires.
We investigated the microwave properties of polymer based metacomposites containing hybridized parallel Fe- and Co-based microwire arrays. A dual-band left-handed feature was observed in the frequency bands of 1.5 to 5.5 GHz and 9 to 17 GHz, indicated by two transmission windows associated with ferromagnetic resonance of Fe-based microwires and long range dipolar resonance between the wire arrays. The plasma frequency after hybridization is significantly increased due to the enhanced effective diameter through the wire-wire interactions between the Fe- and Co- microwire couples. These results offer essential perspectives in designing the multi-band metamaterial for microwave applications such as sensors and cloaking devices.
The results of measurements of XPS spectra and magnetic properties of graphene/Co composites prepared by adding of CoCl$_2$x6H$_2$O diluted in ethyl alcohol to highly-splitted graphite are presented. XPS Co 2p measurements show two sets of 2p$_{3/2,1/2}$-lines belonging to oxidized and metallic Co-atoms. This means that metal in composite is partly oxidized. This conclusion is confirmed by magnetic measurements which show the presence of the main (from the metal) and shifted (from the oxide) hysteresis loops. The presence of oxide layer on the metal surface prevents the metal from the full oxidation and (as shown by magnetic measurements) provides the preservation of ferromagnetic properties after long exposure in ambient air which enables the use of graphene/metal composites in spintronics devices.
We investigate the microwave properties of epoxy-based composite containing melt-extracted CoFeBSiNb microwires fabricated by a combined current-modulation annealing (CCMA) technique. We observe a shift of the resonance peak in the effective permittivity spectra of the composite sample containing annealed 25 mm Nb-doped microwires as an applied magnetic field is increased. This observation is consistent with the absorption-dominated impedance for thick microwires and the ferromagnetic resonance phenomenon. It is shown that CCMA is an appropriate technique to release internal residual stresses. Hence, for samples containing small amounts of Nb, we observe that CCMA allows us to suppress the high frequency resonance peak observed in samples containing as-cast wires. However, for samples containing a high amount of Nb, the high frequency peak remains despite the CCMA treatment. In this case, the observation of a two-peak feature in the permittivity spectra is attributed to the coexistence of the amorphous phase and a small amount of nanocrystallites distributed at the wire surface. However, due to large magnetostatic energy of long (35 mm) and short (15 mm) as-cast wires and imperfect wire-epoxy bonding no shift of the resonance peak and the characteristic double peak of the permittivity spectrum can be detected. Overall, CCMA emerges as a promising strategy to control microwave permittivity in composites with melt-extracted microwires.
A study of magnetic hysteresis and Giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) in amorphous glass covered Co-Si-B and Co-Mn-Si-B wires is presented. The wires, about 10 microns in diameter, were obtained by glass-coated melt spinning technique. Samples with positive magnetostriction (MS) have a rectangular bistable hysteresis loop. A smooth hysteresis loop is observed for wires with nearly zero MS. When MS is negative, almost no hysteresis is observed. The GMI was measured in the frequency range between 20 Hz and 30 MHz. The shapes of the impedance versus field curves are qualitatively similar to each other for both positive and zero MS samples. Impedance is maximum at zero field, and decreases sharply in the range 10-20 Oe. For the negative MS wires, when the driving current is small, the impedance is maximum at a finite external field. The position of the maximum approaches zero with increasing current. The contributions of the moment rotation and domain wall motion in the three cases are discussed.
Traditional approaches to realize microwave tunability in microwire polymer composites which mainly rely on topological factors, magnetic field/stress stimuli, and hybridization prove to be burdensome and restricted to rather narrow band frequencies. This work presents a novel yet facile strategy based on a single component tunable medium to program the transmission response over wide frequency bands. To this end, we demonstrated that structural modification of one type of microwire through suitable current annealing and arrangement of the annealed wires in multiple combinations were sufficient to distinctly red-shift the transmission dip frequency of the composites. Such one wire control-strategy endorsed a programmable multivariable system grounded on the variations in both the overall array conductivity or effectiv area determined by the wires arrangement and the relaxation time dictated by the annealing degree of microwires. These results can be used to prescribe transmission frequency bands of desired features via diverse microwire arrays and microwave performance from a single component to a composite system design.