Influence of High Energy Heavy Ions on Magnetic Susceptibility of Soft Magnetic Metallic Glasses

This contribution presents experimental data concerning the influence of fast heavy ions on magnetic susceptibility of VITROVAC®6025 and VITROPERM®800 metallic glasses. Samples of magnetic ribbons were irradiated with Au, and Ta ions at 11.1 MeV/A (energy per nucleon), and U ions at 5.9 MeV/A. The irradiation fluences varied from 5×$10^{10}$ up to 1.2×$10^{13}$ ions/$cm^{2}$. Relative change of the samples' magnetic susceptibility after and before irradiation was measured and evaluated as a function of the irradiation fluence. Measurements were done with a commercial Kappa-bridge device. We observed that VITROPERM® showed less change of magnetic susceptibility in comparison with VITROVAC® and this change occurred at higher fluences. This indicates higher radiation hardness of VITROPERM® compared with VITROVAC® against high-energy heavy ions. In addition, heavier ions caused larger change of magnetic susceptibility than the lighter ones and the effect could be roughly scaled with the level of electronic stopping.