Proving ground-state ordering in Artificial Spin-Ice systems formed by sub-100 nm nanomangets by means of PNR

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The main purpose of the experiment proposed here is to study the effects of thermalisation on Artificial Spin-Ice (ASI) systems formed by nanomagnets with sub-100 nm lateral dimensions, by means of Polarized Neutron Reflectivity (PNR) analysis on different Bragg peaks. With this experiment we will be able to prove the existence of ground-state ordering in sub-100 nm ASI systems, as well as to quantitatively determine the disorder (deviation from ground-state) for any magnetization configuration present in the ASI pattern. These measurements will be the first-ever proof of the existence of ground-state ordering in sub-100 nm ASI systems, as current imaging techniques used so far to image ASI systems are beyond the resolution limit for such small nanomangets.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.81929735
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/81929735
Provenance
Creator Dr Diego Alba Venero; Dr Jos Cooper; Dr Jose Maria Porro Azpiazu; Miss Sophie Morley; Dr Nina-Juliane Steinke; Professor Sean Langridge; Professor Christopher Marrows
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-07-24T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-07-28T23:00:00Z