Direct magnetic patterning due to the generation of ferromagnetism by selective ion irradiation of paramagnetic FeAl alloys

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Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-234

  Menéndez, Enric ^a,b   Liedke, Maciej Oskar ^b   Fassbender, Jürgen ^b   Gemming, Thomas ^c   Weber, Anja ^d   Heyderman, Laura J ^d   Rao, K V ^e   Deevi, Seetharama C ^f   Suriñach, Santiago ^a   Baró, Maria Dolors ^a   Sort, Jordi ^a   Nogués, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f Philip Morris USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrays; Force microscopy; Ion irradiation; Magnetic materials; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BINARY ALLOYS; FERROMAGNETISM; ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; IONS; IRON ALLOYS; PARAMAGNETISM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARRAYS; FORCE MICROSCOPY; INDUCED MAGNETISM; MAGNETIC PATTERNING; NON-MAGNETIC MATRIX; PATTERN FORMATION; PATTERNED MEDIAS; SQUARE HYSTERESIS LOOP;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

ALLOY; ALUMINUM; ION; IRON; METAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IONS; IRON; MAGNETICS; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 59449090366     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200800783     Document Type: Article

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