Polarised Neutron Reflectometry from Frustrated Nanomagnet Arrays

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We propose to study off-specular polarised neutron reflectivity from an array of CoFeB nanostructures. Many groups use Permalloy to form these types of nanostructures, however, we believe that using CoFeB offers some advantages: whilst having a similar vanishing anisotropy to Permalloy, it has a large Co content, so offering a higher magnetization, and is amorphous, so is more resistant to oxidation as it lacks grain boundaries. The nanostructure array will be designed to exhibit frustrated magnetostatic interactions (similar to a recently reported artificial spin-ice). We shall determine characteristic measures of magnetic disorder from the off-specular Bragg peak intensities that we will observe. This will be done in terms of a correlation function that incorporates the periodic physical array structure as well as the frustrated magnetic array structure.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079569
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079569
Provenance
Creator Professor Christopher Marrows; Dr Christy Kinane; Mr Jason Morgan; Professor Sean Langridge; Dr Timothy Charlton; Miss Johanna Akerman; Dr Devashi Adroja
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-02-16T13:48:48Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-03-11T06:45:02Z