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| Author(s): |
Márcio Medeiros Soares
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin |
| Defense date: | 2008-03-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Flávio Garcia;
Abner de Siervo;
Antonio Domingues dos Santos
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| Advisor: | Flávio Garcia; Eduardo Granado Monteiro da Silva |
| Abstract | |
In this work we have performed a systematic study on Co/Pd multilayers deposited over self-assembled polystyrene nanospheres (with diameter ranging from 50 to 1000 nm). The film deposited over the nonmagnetic nanosphere forms a magnetic cap with variable thickness. The Co and Pd layer thicknesses were chosen in order to obtain two classes of multilayers, one exhibiting intrinsic in-plane anisotropy and the other exhibiting intrinsic out-of-plane anisotropy, when deposited on flat substrates. The magnetic behavior of the caps¿ arrays with intrinsic out-of-plane anisotropy which we have produced agrees with results recently reported in the literature. The magnetic microstructure of the systems with intrinsic in-plane anisotropy is mainly influenced by three-dimensional shape and size of the caps. The study of those caps included magnetic characterization by Extraordinary Hall Effect, Magneto-Optic Kerr Effect and SQUID, structural analysis by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and magnetic configuration probing by Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM). For the smallest spheres (50 and 100 nm in diameter) TEM images show that the cap is segmented into radial nanopillar like structures. Agreeing with our magnetic measurements, we propose that this segmentation induces an effective radial anisotropy in the smallest caps. For the largest caps (500 and 1000 nm in diameter) we have studied the influence of the thickness gradient (probed by TEM) on the effective anisotropy along de cap. In those caps the multilayers are continuous and, correlating magnetic characterizations, TEM images, MFM profiles and micromagnetic simulations, we concluded that the magnetization forms a curling structure in the top of the caps. The so formed magnetic vortex is strongly influenced by the cap¿s shape. We observed that the magnetic vortex core is considerably larger than the ones shown in the literature for vortex in planar discs, indicating that this cap system may be promising for applications in magnetic recording medias (AU) | |