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Cylindrical magnetic nanowires with large transversal magnetocrystalline anisotropy have been shown to sustain non-trivial magnetic configurations resulting from the interplay of spatial confinement, exchange, and anisotropies. Exploiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 I. M. Andersen , D. Wolf , L. A. Rodriguez , A. Lubk , D. Oliveros , C. Bran , T. Niermann , U. K. Rößler , M. Vazquez , C. Gatel , E. Snoeck

Precise control of magnetic domain formation at the nanoscale remains constrained by stochastic defect-mediated and unstable pinning, limiting scalability and reproducibility in spintronic architectures. Here we demonstrate that spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Gijs W. A. Simons , Rik F. J. van Haren , Bert Koopmans

We demonstrate the possibility to write and modulate the magnetic domain walls in a TbFeCo single layer nanowire (300 nm width, 150 $\mu$m length). To realize this, a tiny magnetic domain was nucleated by an Oersted field produced by a 1.6…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-01 Duc-The Ngo , Kotaro Ikeda , Hiroyuki Awano

Magnetization reversals through the formation of vortex state and the rotation of onion state are two processes with comparable probabilities for symmetric magnetic nanorings with radius of about 50 nanometers. This magnetic bistability is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Q. Zhu , G. W. Chern , O. Tchernyshyov , X. C. Zhu , J. G. Zhu , C. L. Chien

We represent the results of micromagnetic modeling and experimental magnetic force microscopy investigations of domain wall (DW) pinning-depinning effects in the hybrid systems consisting of ferromagnetic nanowire (NW) and two ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 V. L. Mironov , O. L. Ermolaeva , E. V. Skorohodov , A. Yu. Klimov

Cellular-level neuron stimulation has attracted much attention in the areas of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. Herein, we propose a spintronic neurostimulator based on the domain wall movement inside…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Diqing Su , Kai Wu , Renata Saha , Jian-Ping Wang

Recent studies have predicted extraordinary properties for transverse domain walls in cylindrical nanowires: zero depinning current, the absence of the Walker breakdown, and applications as domain wall oscillators. In order to reliably…

The presence of quantum vortices determines the electromagnetic response of superconducting materials and devices. Controlling the vortex motion, their pinning on intrinsic and artificial defects is therefore essential for superconducting…

Magnetoresistance measurements in the CPP geometry have been performed on single electrodeposited Co nanowires exchange biased on one side by a sputtered amorphous GdCo layer. This geometry allows the stabilization of a single domain wall…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. -E. Wegrowe , A. Comment , Y. Jaccard , J. -Ph. Ansermet , N. M. Dempsey , J-P. Nozieres

We propose a physical mechanism for fine-tuning the phase of a domain wall around the equilibrium directions involving the application of an external field and a spin polarized current in opposite directions. In this way, the position of…

Broadband magnetization response of coupled vortex state magnetic dots in layered nanopillars was explored as a function of in-plane magnetic field and interlayer separation. For dipolarly coupled circular Py(25 nm)/Cu(20 nm)/Py(25 nm)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Ahmad A. Awad , Antonio Lara , Vitali Metlushko , Konstantin Y. Guslienko , Farkhad G. Aliev

The magnetic properties of single-domain nanoparticles with different geometric shapes, crystalline anisotropies and lattice structures are investigated. A recently proposed scaling approach is shown to be universal and in agreement with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Wen Zhang , Rohit Singh , Noah Bray-Ali , Stephan Haas

Scanning transmission x-ray microscopy is employed to investigate experimentally the reversal of the magnetic vortex core polarity in cylindrical Ni81Fe19 nanodisks triggered by two orthogonal monopolar magnetic field pulses with peak…

We reverse the magnetic vortex curling direction of ferromagnetic nanodisk by applying a circular Oersted field. The nanodisk is fabricated without breaking its symmetry. The Oersted field is induced by passing current through an atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Wen-Ming Ju , Mark Tuominen , Nihar Pradhan , Jessica Bickel , Kathy Aidala

We have studied the magnetization reversal of CoFeB-MgO nanodots with perpendicular anisotropy for size ranging from w=400 nm to 1 {\mu}m. Contrary to previous experiments, the switching field distribution is shifted toward lower magnetic…

Nano- and micromagnetic materials have been extensively employed in micro-functional devices. However, measuring small-scale mechanical and magnetomechanical properties is challenging, which restricts the design of new products and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-04 Hao Zhou , Yongmao Pei , Daining Fang

Interactions between pairs of magnetic domain walls (DW) and pinning by radial constrictions were studied in cylindrical nanowires with surface roughness. It was found that a radial constriction creates a symmetric pinning potential well,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Voicu O. Dolocan

Using numerical simulation we have studied a magnetization distribution and a process of magnetization reversal in nanoscale magnets placed above a superconductor plane. In order to consider an influence of superconductor on magnetization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Fraerman , I. R. Karetnikova , I. M. Nefedov , I. A. Shereshevskii , M. A. Silaev

Transfer of angular momentum from a spin-polarized current to a ferromagnet provides an efficient means to control the dynamics of nanomagnets. A peculiar consequence of this spin-torque, the ability to induce persistent oscillations of a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 V. S. Pribiag , I. N. Krivorotov , G. D. Fuchs , P. M. Braganca , O. Ozatay , J. C. Sankey , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We discuss the structure of the so-called "vortex" domain walls in soft magnetic nanoparticles. A wall of this kind is a composite object consisting of three elementary topological defects: two edge defects with winding numbers -1/2 and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Youk , G. -W. Chern , K. Merit , B. Oppenheimer , O. Tchernyshyov