Joule Heating Preannealing Effect in the Coercivity Field and Magnetostriction Constant of Co$\text{}_{66}$Fe$\text{}_{4}$Mo$\text{}_{2}$Si$\text{}_{16}$B$\text{}_{12}$ Alloy

The effect of thermal treatments (by the Joule heating and conventional annealing) on the coercivity and saturation magnetostriction constant in the amorphous and nanocrystalline Co$\text{}_{66}$Fe$\text{}_{4}$Mo$\text{}_{2}$Si$\text{}_{16}$B$\text{}_{12}$ alloy is reported. It is noticeable the near insensibility to the external stress of coercive field and anisotropy field (leading to extremely low value of magnetostriction 1.5×10$\text{}^{-8}$) achieved after the Joule heating by two steps (first one to relax the internal stresses and the second one to develop a fine nanocrystalline structure).