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Perpendicular magnetisation from in-plane fields in nano-scaled antidot lattices
Joachim Gräfe1, Felix Haering, Thomas Tietze
1Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.
Abstract:
Investigations of geometric frustrations in magnetic antidot lattices have led to the observation of interesting phenomena like spin-ice and magnetic monopoles. By using highly focused magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements and x-ray microscopy with magnetic contrast we deduce that geometrical frustration in these nanostructured thin film systems also leads to an out-of-plane magnetization from a purely in-plane applied magnetic field. For certain orientations of the antidot lattice, formation of perpendicular magnetic domains has been found with a size of several μm that may be used for an in-plane/out-of-plane transducer.
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