Emergent Collective Phenomena in Artificial Spin Ice (Final Technical Report)
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
This program encompassed studies of lithographically fabricated “artificial spin ice” arrays of nanometer-scale single-domain ferromagnetic islands in which the array geometry results in frustration of the magnetostatic interactions between the islands. Artificial spin ice offers a wide range of opportunities for studying the mechanism by which nature accommodates frustration and accesses physics associated with frustration in ferromagnetic nanostructures. Since the arrays are created lithographically, we can easily vary the array characteristics, including the geometry of the lattice and the level and type of lattice disorder. We can probe both the local properties of the arrays by imaging individual moments, and we can also probe thousands of moments simultaneously, allowing us to gain insight into the collective properties of the system. The research funded by this program included studies of unusual frustrated lattices, studies of magnetotransport in these systems, studies of perpendicular anisotropy moments, and a range of other related experimental measurements.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0010778
- OSTI ID:
- 1766435
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-ILLINOIS-10778; TRN: US2215172
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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