Localized magnetic fields in arbitrary directions using patterned nanomagnets

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1549-1553

  McNeil, Robert P G ^a   Schneble, R Jeff ^a   Kataoka, Masaya ^a   Ford, Christopher J B ^a   Kasama, Takeshi ^b   Dunin Borkowski, Rafal E ^b   Feinberg, Joshua M ^c,d   Harrison, Richard J ^c   Barnes, Crispin H W ^a   Tse, Desmond H Y ^a   Trypiniotis, Theodossis ^a   Bland, J Anthony C ^a   Anderson, David ^a   Jones, Geb A C ^a   Pepper, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Electron holography; Magnetic field; Nanomagnet; Permalloy

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DIRECTION; EXISTING METHOD; FIELD ORIENTATION; LOCAL FIELDS; LOCAL MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC ELEMENTS; MAGNETIC-FIELD DIRECTION; NANO-METER SCALE; NANOMAGNET; NANOMAGNETS; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; SPINTRONICS; SUBMICROMETERS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOMAGNETICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77952353368     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl902949v     Document Type: Article

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