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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
Ultrathin ribbons of amorphous Fe83Cu1Nb7B9 obtained by planar flow casting, have been submitted to dc Joule heating in vacuum to develop a nanocrystalline phase. Variations in the initial magnetic permeability as high as 1000 times the as-quenched value have been measured in a wide range of nanocrystalline samples. The magnetoimpedance behavior in the microwave region has been studied as a function of the nanocrystalline state. In this work the intensity of the impedance variation has been related to the samples degree of softness.