Determination of stress-coefficient of magnetoelastic anisotropy in flexible amorphous CoFeB film by anisotropic magnetoresistance

Flexible magnetic devices are one of the indispensable flexible devices. However, the deformation of the magnetic devices will change the magnetic anisotropy of magnetic materials due to magnetoelastic anisotropy, which will decrease the performance of the devices. Therefore, it is essential to determine the stress-coefficient of magnetoelastic anisotropy in magnetic materials. Here, the magnetic anisotropy constants of an amorphous CoFeB film on a flexible polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrate in different stress states were quantitatively investigated by anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR). The enhanced magnetic anisotropy of the CoFeB film at reduced temperature is due to magnetoelastic anisotropy induced by anisotropic thermal expansion of the PVDF substrate. Through fitting the AMR curves under variant fields in different stress states, the stress-coefficient of magnetoelastic anisotropy in the amorphous CoFeB film is obtained to be 170.7 × 103 erg cm−3 GPa−1.