Magnetic properties of optimized cobalt nanospheres grown by focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) on cantilever tips

• Soraya Sangiao,
• César Magén,
• Darius Mofakhami,
• Grégoire de Loubens and
• José María De Teresa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2106–2115, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.210

• -vortex-lattice pinning [17]; as well as (d) three-dimensional nanowires for magnetic domain-wall studies [18][19] and for remote magnetomechanical actuation [20], quantum dots for magnetic storage [21] and catalytic purposes [22], polygonal shapes for micromagnetic studies [23][24] and spin-ice

Magnetic switching of nanoscale antidot lattices

• Ulf Wiedwald,
• Joachim Gräfe,
• Kristof M. Lebecki,
• Maxim Skripnik,
• Felix Haering,
• Gisela Schütz,
• Paul Ziemann,
• Eberhard Goering and
• Ulrich Nowak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 733–750, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.65

• ; magnetic nanostructures; magnetic switching; micromagnetic simulations; plasma etching; spin ice; X-ray microscopy; Introduction In nanotechnology, a widely used approach for tailoring physical properties on the nanometre length scale is the introduction of practically circular holes – so-called antidots

• , with the antidot distance a, has proven forming an artificial spin-ice system by geometric frustration [16]. Recently, local switching events in such artificial spin-ice systems have attracted much attention for the production of pairs of magnetic monopoles still obeying Maxwell equations [17]. At the

• regimes for smaller (d < 0.75a) and larger (d > 0.75a) antidots that is investigated in more detail for Fe antidot films by magnetometry in confined geometries, magnetic microscopy and micromagnetic simulations. Two highlights are the formation of an artificial spin-ice structure for the larger antidots

Fabrication of high-resolution nanostructures of complex geometry by the single-spot nanolithography method

• Alexander Samardak,
• Margarita Anisimova,
• Aleksei Samardak and
• Alexey Ognev

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 976–986, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.101

• method is very promising for fabrication of high-quality, artificial, spin-ice lattices [21][22], magnonic [23] and photonic [24] crystals on large scale. An important additional advantage of the proposed method is the fast patterning of a template as compared with the exposure time required for the

Tuning the properties of magnetic thin films by interaction with periodic nanostructures

• Ulf Wiedwald,
• Felix Haering,
• Stefan Nau,
• Carsten Schulze,
• Herbert Schletter,
• Denys Makarov,
• Alfred Plettl,
• Karsten Kuepper,
• Manfred Albrecht,
• Johannes Boneberg and
• Paul Ziemann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 831–842, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.93

• PS spheres including the magnetic caps on top may also be removed by chemo-mechanical polishing leading to a void structure, which may potentially be used as 2-D artificial spin-ice systems [27]. In the following, however, we focus on percolated films with magnetic caps present. In summary, the

Focused electron beam induced deposition: A perspective

• Michael Huth,
• Fabrizio Porrati,
• Christian Schwalb,
• Marcel Winhold,
• Roland Sachser,
• Maja Dukic,
• Jonathan Adams and
• Georg Fantner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 597–619, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.70

• a face-centered tetragonal structure and is hard magnetic at room temperature [34]. Without any doubt FEBID holds great promise to become an important fabrication technique for magnetic nanostructures for micromagnetic studies, such as in the area of artificial spin-ice systems [35] or dipolar