In-plane moment canting in amorphous Fe/sub 78/B/sub 13/Si/sub 9/ in applied fields measured using polarized Mossbauer spectroscopy

A new methodology for making quantitative micromagnetic measurements of the in-plane moment canting in Fe-based amorphous alloys, via polarized Mossbauer spectroscopy, is introduced and explained. The technique is applied to the measurement of the approach to magnetic saturation of a field-annealed Fe/sub 78/B/sub 13/Si/sub 9/ ribbon. It is demonstrated that even in a field of 200 kAm/sup -1/ the moments are not completely saturated, and are canted by on average /spl sim/3/spl deg/ to the applied field.<
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