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Preparation and magnetic properties of cylindrical permalloy nanowire arrays

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Cylindrical permalloy nanowire arrays are prepared by employing anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) template-assisted electrochemical deposition method. To prepare high-quality permalloy nanowire, the effects of different deposition parameters (pulse current density, concentration and pH value of the electrolyte, and deposition temperature) on the chemical composition, uniformity, and magnetic properties of the nanowires are systematically investigated. A high-quality permalloy nanowire with good magnetic properties of \({M}_{\text{S}}\approx 5.7\times {10}^{5}\, \mathrm{A}/\mathrm{m}\) and \(\alpha \approx 0.04\) has been successfully prepared by optimizing the preparation scheme, which can provide technical support for mass production of cylindrical permalloy nanowire for spintronic devices.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China for funding the project. This work also technically supported by the Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy and Yichang Key Laboratory of Magnetic Functional Materials.

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This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2017YFB0903700 and 2017YFB0903702) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11474183).

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  1. Hubei Engineering Research Center of Weak Magnetic-Field Detection, College of Science, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, People’s Republic of China

    Yunxiu Zhao, Lei Liu, Huijuan Zhang, Hong-Guang Piao & Liqing Pan

  2. Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, 28644, South Korea

    Yunxiu Zhao

  3. College of Biological and Pharmaceutical Science, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, People’s Republic of China

    Xinwen Zhou

  4. Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, People’s Republic of China

    Lin Xie

  5. School of Resources and Materials, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, 066004, People’s Republic of China

    Hongyu Sun

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Zhao, Y., Liu, L., Zhou, X. et al. Preparation and magnetic properties of cylindrical permalloy nanowire arrays. MRS Communications 11, 902–909 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-021-00125-w

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