Enhanced nucleation of vortices in soft magnetic materials prepared by silica nanosphere lithography

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 891-896

  Martin, Norbert ^a,b,c   Bigall, Nadja Carola ^d   Mönch, Ingolf ^b   Gemming, Thomas ^b   Eychmüller, Alexander ^c   Mattheis, Roland ^e   Schäfer, Rudolf ^b,c   Schultz, Ludwig ^b,c   Mccord, Jeffrey ^a  

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

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

magnetic materials; magnetic vortex; nanoparticles; patterned arrays; thin films

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL DIAMETER; DATA STORAGE; DATA STORAGE DENSITY; EDGE GEOMETRY; FERROMAGNETIC THIN FILMS; LOWER LIMITS; MAGNETIC CONFIGURATION; MAGNETIC DISK; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIC VORTEX; MAGNETIC VORTICES; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NANO SPHERE LITHOGRAPHY; PACKED ARRAYS; PATTERNED ARRAYS; SILICA NANOSPHERES; SOFT MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; SUBMICROMETERS; VORTEX FORMATION; VORTEX NUCLEATION;

DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FILMS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; NUCLEATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SILICA; SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79952163510     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201002140     Document Type: Article

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