AFM for Magnetics and Data Storage Research
Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) is an important advance in atomic force microscopy that opened up the study of submicrometer magnetic domains. The technique has especially found a central place in the magnetic data storage industry, i.e., in the imaging of magnetic media and devices, whether in the analysis of magnetically recorded bits or in the performance of transducers that read/write them. MFM is also used in fundamental research of magnetic materials and composites, from nanoparticles and nanowires to ferritin proteins. More recently, MFM has been used in tandem with piezoelectric force microscopy (PFM) to characterize multiferroic composites that exhibit magnetoelectric coupling. These composites that consist of both magnetorestrictive and piezoelectric components can also be characterized by operating PFM under an applied in-plane magnetic field using a variable field module (VFM). Research on these novel magnetic materials is driven by the search for higher-density data storage media, high-speed, low-power spintronic devices for computing, and a new class of dual electric-field- and magnetic-field-tunable signal-processing devices.
Magnetic force microscopy (MFM)
Variable Field Module (VFM)
Piezoelectric Force Microscopy (PFM)
Data storage materials
Magnetoresistive materials for read heads
Multiferroic composites for multiple-state memory devices
Spintronic devices, spin transistors, quantum computing
Solid-state transformers
Gyrators
High sensitivity magnetic field and current sensors
Electromagneto-optic actuators
Novel signal-processing devices: resonators, filters, phase shifters, delay lines, attenuators, and miniature antennas
High performance microwave and millimeter-wave resonators
Taking Control of Spin Wave Propagation
Researchers showed how to excite and control antiferromagnetic-type spin waves in films with periodic nanodomains using magnetic AFM.
Magnetic Force Microscopy Under Applied Perpendicular Fields with Asylum Research AFMs
AFM Characterization of Thin Films: High-Resolution Topography and Functional Properties
Measuring Surface Roughness with Atomic Force Microscopy
Datasheet: Variable Field Module (VFM4)
More Than Just Roughness: AFM Techniques for Thin Film Analysis
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