Remotely Induced Magnetism in a Normal Metal using a Superconductor/Ferromagnetic Heterostructure

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Superconductivity and ferromagnetism are usually antagonistic phenomenon; however in nanoscale heterostructures we may juxtapose the two effects to create exotic pairing mechanisms. One such state is created when a conventional superconductor (such as Nb) and a metallic ferromagnet (such as Co) are place in contact which results in an anti-parallel magnetisation being induced in the superconductor which decays with the normal superconducting coherence length (tens of nanometres). This effect is highly dependent on the ferromagnet/superconductor interface diffusion and increases in magnitude with increasingly diffuse interfaces. We propose to measure the magnetisation induced in the superconductor and how it is affected by the interface properties by artificially diffusing the interface (through co-sputtering or annealing) in a series of otherwise identical multilayers.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.49919985
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/49919985
Provenance
Creator Dr Christy Kinane; Professor Steve Lee; Professor Matthias Eschrig; Dr Gavin Burnell; Dr Jos Cooper; Professor Sean Langridge; Dr Nathan Satchell; Dr Peter Curran; Mr Michael Batley; Dr Machiel Flokstra
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-05-30T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-06-04T23:00:00Z