Quasilogarithmic magnetic viscosity in perpendicularly anisotropic Nd–Fe–B films

The quasilogarithmic magnetic viscosity of the perpendicularly anisotropic Nd-Fe-B films is determined by measuring the time dependent magnetization in coercive fields at 300 K-4.2 K. The distribution of energy barrier heights in the films is believed to be the origin of this stretched exponential magnetic relaxation. Another feature exhibited in the anisotropic Nd-Fe-B films is the nonmonotonic temperature dependence of the magnetic viscosity coefficients, which are extracted by the decay slopes of the linear quasilogarithmic magnetic aftereffect curves. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.