Ultrasmall functional ferromagnetic nanostructures grown by focused electron-beam-induced deposition

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 7781-7787

  Serrano Ramón, Luis ^a   Córdoba, Rosa ^a   Rodríguez, Luis Alfredo ^a   Magén, César ^a,b,d   Snoeck, Etienne ^c,d   Gatel, Christophe ^c,d   Serrano, Inés ^a   Ibarra, Manuel Ricardo ^a,d   De Teresa, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

^c CEMES CNRS   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

electron holography; focused electron beam induced deposition; Hall sensors; magnetic nanostructures; nanowires

Indexed keywords

DIRECT WRITE; ELECTRON BEAM-INDUCED DEPOSITION; FERROMAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES; GROWTH CONDITIONS; HALL SENSOR; LATERAL SIZES; MAGNETIC CHARACTERIZATION; MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES; ULTRA-SMALL; ULTRANARROW NANOWIRES;

COBALT; ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY; HALL EFFECT TRANSDUCERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; SENSORS;

ELECTRONS;

COBALT; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; ELECTROPLATING INDUSTRY; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNET; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

COBALT; ELECTRONS; ELECTROPLATING; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 80055008448     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201517r     Document Type: Article

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