Design of Intense Nanoscale Stray Fields and Gradients at Magnetic

Jan 4, 2019 - We explore electrodeposited ordered arrays of Fe, Ni, and Co nanorods embedded in anodic alumina membranes as a source of intense ...
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Design of intense nanoscale stray fields and gradients at magnetic nanorod interfaces Yurii P. Ivanov, Jonathan Leliaert, Adrian Crespo, Matteo Pancaldi, Christopher Tollan, Jurgen Kosel, Andrey Chuvilin, and Paolo Vavassori ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b19873 • Publication Date (Web): 04 Jan 2019 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 7, 2019

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Design of intense nanoscale stray fields and gradients at magnetic nanorod interfaces Yurii P. Ivanov†,,*,‡, Jonathan Leliaert§,‡, Adrian Crespo‖, Matteo Pancaldi‖, Christopher Tollan‖, Jurgen Kosel, Andrey Chuvilin‖,, Paolo Vavassori‖,

† Department

of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

CB3 0FS, UK

 School

of Natural Sciences, Far Eastern Federal University, 690950, Vladivostok,

Russia

§ Dept.



of Solid State Sciences, Ghent University, BE9000 Ghent, Belgium

CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Av. de Tolosa 76, 20018, San Sebastian, Spain

 King

Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955, Saudi Arabia

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IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Maria Diaz de Haro 3, 48013, Bilbao,

Spain

KEYWORDS nanomagnets arrays, TEM, MOKE, micromagnetic simulations, patterned stray fields

ABSTRACT

We explore electrodeposited ordered arrays of Fe, Ni and Co nanorods embedded in anodic alumina membranes as a source of intense magnetic stray field gradients localized at the nanoscale. We perform a multiscale characterization of the stray fields using a combination of experimental methods (Magneto-optical Kerr effect, Virtual Bright Field Differential Phase Contrast Imaging) and micromagnetic simulations, and establish a clear correlation between the stray fields and the magnetic configurations of the nanorods. For uniformly magnetized Fe and Ni wires the field gradients vary following

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saturation magnetization of corresponding metal and the diameter of the wires. In the case of Co nanorods, very localized (~10 nm) and intense (> 1T) stray field sources are associated with the cores of magnetic vortexes. Confinement of that strong field at extremely small dimensions leads to exceptionally high field gradients up to 108 T/m. These results demonstrate a clear path to design and fine-tune nanoscale magnetic stray field ordered patterns with a broad applicability in key nanotechnologies, such as nanomedicine, nanobiology, nanoplasmonics and sensors.

INTRODUCTION Micro- and nanosized magnets are promising tools for manipulation,1, 2 sorting, 3 and detection of biological samples,3-5 or for applications in surface chemistry,6 and sensor technologies.7 A review of recent advances in this broad and emerging research topic can be found in Ref.8 In the case of medicine and bio-chemistry applications, literature indicates that a fine control of both the gradient and the configuration of the magnetic stray field produced by arrays of nanomagnets is required. 9-10 One example, illustrating the potential of such substrates for bio-medical studies and applications, is that of an array of micron-sized Nd-Fe-B rods covered with parylene (poly(p-xylylene) polymer), utilized to study the effects of magnetic fields on the proliferation and differentiation of stem cells.11 High magnetic field gradient causes the cells to attach themselves to and grow on the edges of the micromagnets. It was shown that high magnetic field gradients can assist and direct cell migration, thereby allowing one to build up tunable

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interconnected stem cell networks - an elegant route for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The possibility of using nanomagnets with high stray field gradient in self-assembling process was further elaborated in several studies.12-16 Thus in Ref.16 the authors investigated the assembly of magnetotactic bacteria and magnetite or cobaltite nanoparticles on micron-sized periodic patterns of commercial audio tapes. Local magnetic field gradients also find use in surface chemistry for controlling the position of adsorption of diamagnetic molecules.6 These real-life applications call for an affordable and scalable fabrication process of large area nanomagnetic substrates with tunable stray field configuration and gradient. Commonly, arrays of nano-magnets on surfaces are produced by lithography process,17-19 which is time consuming, expensive and is limited in spatial resolution. An alternative method to generate surface stray fields is by arrays of magnetic nanorods embedded in a non-magnetic template,20 provided that the magnetic properties and thus the stray fields generated by these arrays can be controlled. Electrodeposition in templates is an inexpensive and fast technology to produce arrays of very thin (