The role of internal stresses in amorphous ferromagnetic alloys

In rapidly quenched, amorphous ferromagnetic alloys domain patterns and magnetization processes are governed by topological defects and their stress fields. It is shown that domain patterns reflect the arrangement of tensile and compressive stresses. As sources of elastic stresses quasi-dislocation dipoles are proposed wich are formed during the rapid quenching process by an agglomeration of the free volume.