S. A. Gudoshnikov

Ferromagnetism in the high-pressure phases of (GaSb)1−x Mnx

The electrophysical and magnetic properties of recently discovered high-pressure phases in the GaSb-Mn system with simple cubic and tetragonal structures have been examined. It has been shown that samples with the primitive cubic structure for low temperatures are in the ferromagnetic state and the Curic temperature depends on the initial manganese content and reaches Tc = 280 K for x = 0.6. It has been shown that these samples for a manganese content x ≤ 0.5 are in the semiconducting state with large impurity conduction and pass to the metallic state as x increases. The GaSbMn phase with the tetragonal structure has ferromagnetic properties up to temperatures of T ∼450 K (at which the phase begins to decay) and exhibits metallic properties. The magnetization at T = 77.3 K is equal to M = 0.58 μB and 0.28 μB per manganese ion for the simple cubic and tetragonal phases, respectively.

A high-sensitivity scanning magnetometer based on the giant magneto-impedance effect for measuring local magnetic fields of corrosion currents

The design, main characteristics, and specific features of a new high-sensitivity magnetometer based on the giant magneto-impedance (GMI) effect in amorphous ferromagnetic microwires are considered. It is shown that, in addition to measuring homogeneous fields, the device is capable of detecting weak local magnetic fields of conduction currents and ion currents involved in corrosion processes. Results of in situ magnetic measurements of corrosion processes in the model system of copper–zinc in a sulfuric acid solution qualitatively agree with the data of direct corrosion tests employing the standard gravimetric method.

Magnetic and Screening Properties of Amorphous Ferromagnetic Ribbons

We have studied the magnetic and screening properties of cylindrical shields made of amorphous ferromagnetic ribbons. It is established that the relative magnetic permeability of this material can exceed 106. The action of an alternating decaying magnetic field (demagnetization) converts amorphous ferromagnetic ribbons into the state of anhysteretic magnetization, which is characterized by extremely high (above 2 × 107) values of the relative magnetic permeability in magnetic fields at a level of 10 nT. The results of measurements were used to estimate the coefficient of attenuation of the Earth’s magnetic field inside cylindrical shields with open ends, depending on the diameter and the number of layers of an amorphous ferromagnetic ribbon.