Abstract

The effect of the residual quenching stresses on the magnetization distribution in thin cast amorphous microwires with negative and positive magnetostrictions in zero magnetic field is studied. We find that different cast amorphous microwires with either negative or positive magnetostriction have total magnetization in zero magnetic field and neither present curling nor buckling modes. Also we estimate the resonance frequencies for the considered wires. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.