Nanostructured superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers

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2002-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201302v1

New Trends in Superconductivity, J. F. Annett and S. Kruchinin (eds.), NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemis

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "New trends in superconductivity",

Scientific paper

The pinning properties of type-II superconductors can be efficiently controlled by using laterally nanostructured ferromagnet / superconductor bilayers. This will be illustrated by studying the flux pinning in thin superconducting Pb films which are deposited on top of two types of magnetic nanostructures with out-of-plane magnetisation: (i) an array of dots, and (ii) an array of antidots, both made from a Co/Pt multilayer. The magnetisation curves of the Pb film are extremely asymmetric with respect to the polarity of the magnetic field when the magnetic moments in the Co/Pt multilayer were aligned prior to measurement. This asymmetry proves that magnetic contributions dominate the pinning potential that the magnetic nanostructures induce in the superconductor.

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