Optimal ferromagnetically-coated carbon nanotube tips for ultra-high resolution magnetic force microscopy

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Lisunova, Y ^a   Heidler, J ^b   Levkivskyi, I ^a,c   Gaponenko, I ^a   Weber, A ^b,d   Caillier, Ch ^a   Heyderman, L J ^b,d   Klaui M ^b,e   Paruch, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c BOGOLYUBOV INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CARBON NANOTUBE TIP; COATING THICKNESS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FORMATION PARAMETER; HIGH MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC COATINGS; MAGNETIC SAMPLES; MAGNETIC VOLUME; NANO SCALE; OPTIMAL IMAGING; SPIN STRUCTURES; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

COATINGS; HUMIDITY CONTROL; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

NANOMAGNETICS;

EID: 84874271929     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/10/105705     Document Type: Article

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