Zero-field-cooled (ZFC) magnetization, field-cooled (FC) magnetization, ac magnetic susceptibility and major hysteresis loops of itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO3 have been measured at magnetic ordering temperatures ranging from 5 to 160 K. An empirical model is proposed to calculate the measured ZFC magnetization. The result indicates that the calculated ZFC magnetization compares well with the measured one. Based on the generalized Preisach model, both the ZFC and FC curves are reproduced by numerical simulations. The critical temperature and critical exponents are determined by measuring the ac magnetic susceptibility in different bias magnetic fields at temperatures in the vicinity of the point of phase transition.

The granular γ-Fe2O3 powders are prepared. The particle shapes and mean particle sizes of the samples are determined by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). Using Extracting Sample Magnetometer (ESM) and Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM), the magnetic parameters are measured at different temperatures. By the Law of Approach to Saturation (LATS), the effective magnetic anisotropy constants KE of granular γ-Fe2O3 powders at different temperatures are obtained. By using the mixed-coercivity model, a good explanation is given to the temperature dependence of the coercivity for granular γ-Fe2O3. It is found experimentally, for the first time, that the variation tendency of KE with temperature for granular γ-Fe2O3 is about the same as that of the shape magnetic anisotropy Ksh, and that the magnetization reversal process of granular γ-Fe2O3 is close to uniform rotation at different temperatures.

The irreversible response of a ferromagnetic pervoskite SrRuO3 with a Curie temperature TC = 160 K has been characterized experimentally by measuring the temperature dependence of the field cooled and zero field cooled moments over the temperature interval 5 K≤T≤180 K; in a sequence of applied fields up to the coercive field, and also the major hysteresis loop over the field range ∣ha∣≤40 kOe at a sequence of temperatures which span the ordered phase. The data have been analysed within the framework of a generalized version of the Preisach model of hysteresis which combines thermal fluctuations with the growth of the free energy barriers below TC. The numerical simulations replicate all of the principal structural systematics of the data, and yield details of the spectrum of Barkhausen instabilities in this material.

The Fe0.7 Co0.3 - SiO2 granular alloy solid has been prepared using a sol-gel method, and investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The effective magnetic anisotropy KE has been measured by the law of approach to saturation (LATS). The evolution of the magnetic properties for the granular alloy solid during reducing is described and explained by means of particle size distribution and superparamagnetic behaviour. When the measuring temperature changes from 100 to 800 K, the variations of saturation magnetization, effective magnetic anisotropy and coercivity of the Fe0.7 Co0.3-SiO2 granular solid are much smaller than those of existing magnetic recording media. The Fe0.7 Co0.3 - SiO2 granular alloy solid has a potential for application in high density magnetic recording media, which can be used in a wide temperature range.

Ni-doped TiO2 anatase thin films were fabricated by reactive magnetron sputtering on SiO2 substrates. The doping and annealing effects on structure and magnetism for the films have been systematically investigated. The results show that ferromagnetism originated from the doped matrix and enhancement (suppression) of ferromagnetism is strongly correlated with the increase (decrease) of oxygen vacancies in TiO2.