Manipulation of magnetic anisotropy in nanostructures

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dc.contributor.advisorRoy, Saibalen
dc.contributor.advisorMcInerney, John G.en
dc.contributor.authorMaity, Tuhin
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commissionen
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-12T12:49:39Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.submitted2015
dc.description.abstractOf late, the magnetic properties of micro/nano-structures have attracted intense research interest both fundamentally and technologically particularly to address the question that how the manipulation in the different layers of nanostructures, geometry of a patterned structure can affect the overall magnetic properties, while generating novel applications such as in magnetic sensors, storage devices, integrated inductive components and spintronic devices. Depending on the applications, materials with high, medium or low magnetic anisotropy and their possible manipulation are required. The most dramatic manifestation in this respect is the chance to manipulate the magnetic anisotropy over the intrinsic preferential direction of the magnetization, which can open up more functionality particularly for device applications. Types of magnetic anisotropies of different nanostructured materials and their manipulation techniques are investigated in this work. Detail experimental methods for the quantitative determination of magnetic anisotropy in nanomodulated Ni45Fe55 thin film are studied. Magnetic field induced in-plane rotations within the nanomodulated Ni45Fe55 continuous films revealed various rotational symmetries of magnetic anisotropy due to dipolar interactions showing a crossover from lower to higher fold of symmetry as a function of modulation geometry. In a second approach, the control of exchange anisotropy at ferromagnetic (FM) – aniferomagnetic (AFM) interface in multifferoic nanocomposite materials, where two different phase/types of materials were simultaneously synthesized, was investigated. The third part of this work was to study the electroplated thin films of metal alloy nanocomposite for enhanced exchange anisotropy. In this work a unique observation of an anti-clock wise as well as a clock wise hysteresis loop formation in the Ni,Fe solid solution with very low coercivity and large positive exchange anisotropy/exchange bias have been investigated. Hence, controllable positive and negative exchange anisotropy has been observed for the first time which has high potential applications such as in MRAM devices.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Commission (FP7 Project NANOFUNCTION Grant No. 257375); Science Foundation Ireland (SFI Principal Investigator Project No. 11/PI/1201; FORME Strategic Research Cluster Award No. 07/SRC/I1172); ISCA grant (SFI:12/ISCA/2493); Indo-Ireland Joint Program (DST/INT/IRE/P-15/11)en
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dc.identifier.citationMaity, T. S. 2015. Manipulation of magnetic anisotropy in nanostructures. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/2058
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2015, Tuhin S. Maity.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectNanomaterialsen
dc.subjectMultiferroicsen
dc.subjectAnisotropyen
dc.subjectMagneticsen
dc.subjectExchange biasen
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dc.titleManipulation of magnetic anisotropy in nanostructuresen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD (Science)en
ucc.workflow.supervisorsaibal.roy@tyndall.ie
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