Solution

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Along the easy axis, expect an approximately rectangular loop: after saturation the remanent magnetization is close to , and reversal occurs near through nucleation and domain-wall motion. Permalloy is magnetically soft, so is ordinarily small, although defects and growth conditions set its actual value.
Figure 1.
Easy-axis switching and hard-axis rotation for an idealized uniaxial thin film
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The axes are in and applied in . are symbolic because their measured values are not supplied. The deposition field establishes an axis; it is not the measured coercive or anisotropy field.

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