Hysteresis in stress cycling of amorphous ribbons

The permeability of soft amorphous ribbons shows significant hysteresis through stress cycling. The response of a circuit incorporating an amorphous CoFeNiSiB based ribbon, as a function of longitudinal stress, with a longitudinal excitation field, is measured. The behaviour of the stress impedance is related to domain wall behaviour, at a range of different frequencies, through a simple model of eddy currents in sheets. It is suggested that changes in the pinning mechanism have a profound effect on the measured impedance.