In a combined experimental and numerical study, we investigated the details of the motion and pinning of domain walls in isolated and interacting permalloy triangular rings (side 2 μm, width 250 nm, and thickness 25 ...
In a combined experimental and numerical study, we investigated the details of the motion and pinning of domain walls in isolated and interacting permalloy triangular rings (side 2 μm, width 250 nm, and thickness 25 nm). To induce interaction between the rings, they were arranged either in vertical chains with an apex of each triangle in proximity to the edge center of the triangle above it or in horizontal chains where the proximity is between the adjacent corners of the triangles. Using longitudinal and diffraction magneto-optic Kerr effects, magnetic force microscopy, and micromagnetic simulations, we determined the field dependence of the spin structure in the rings. In all cases the remnant state of each ring is an “onion” state characterized by two domain walls—one head to head the other tail to tail—pinned at the apexes. In isolated rings the magnetization reversal occurs between two onion states via the formation of an intermediate vortex state, which arises from the motion and annihilation of the two domain walls. In the case of the horizontal chains the reversal mechanism is unchanged except that the dipolar interaction affects the field range in which the rings are in the vortex state. In the case of vertical chains an additional intermediate state is observed during reversal. The new state involves a domain wall pinned at the center of the edge that is in close proximity to the apex of its neighbor. We show that the domain-wall motion in this last case can be modeled by a triple potential well. Because the new state requires that a domain wall be pinned at the neighboring apex, our observations can be viewed as a very elementary form of magnetic logic.
The authors propose and demonstrate how to use an ordinary optical microscope as a flexible optical lithography tool. Until the advent of digital cameras, most high power optical microscopes had a vertical cone shaped...
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This article presents the first experimental evidence that plasmonic excitation in metal films perforated with regular arrays of subwavelength apertures can produce high resolution far-field radiation patterns of suff...
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Diophantine Frequency Synthesis (DFS), a number-theoretic approach to the design of very high resolution frequency synthesizers, was introduced in 2006. Further work concerning the impact of controlling mixing product...
Diophantine Frequency Synthesis (DFS), a number-theoretic approach to the design of very high resolution frequency synthesizers, was introduced in 2006. Further work concerning the impact of controlling mixing products for high-spectral purity was addressed and reported at the 2007 European Frequency and Time Forum. The focus of this paper is on the implementation of nested DFS architectures targeting microphase-type applications for precision timekeeping systems.
We have shown that DFS does not impart any extraordinary design constraints on spectral purity in comparison to commonly used high resolution frequency synthesis techniques such as DDS or fractional N . Here we describe a design approach for
10 MHz synthesizers with 1E-13 fractional resolution in consecutive steps ranging ±10 Hz. The synthesizers generate their output from a 10 MHz reference standard. Such synthesizers are essential to accomplishing precision frequency correction in timekeeping systems.
The continued examination of potential biological effects of ultrasound and their relationship to clinical practice is a key element in evaluating the safety of diagnostic ultrasound. Periodically, the American Instit...
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Fluorocarbon plasma etching of Si/SiGe heterostructures is demonstrated as a method for fabrication of quantum devices with vertical sidewalls. The heterostructures consist of layers of Si and SiGe, and anisotropic et...
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We present a microfluidic device capable of generating micro-scale gradients of nitric oxide (NO) in cell cultures. NO release is achieved through the proton mediated reaction of a water-soluble low molecular weight p...
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Inherent asymmetry in the tunneling barriers of few-electron quantum dots induces intrinsically different tunneling currents for forward and reverse source-drain biases in the nonlinear transport regime. We demonstrat...
Inherent asymmetry in the tunneling barriers of few-electron quantum dots induces intrinsically different tunneling currents for forward and reverse source-drain biases in the nonlinear transport regime. We demonstrate that in addition to spin selection rules, overlap matrix elements between many-body states are crucial for the correct description of tunneling transmission through quantum dots at large magnetic fields. Signatures of excited (N−1)-electron states in the transport process through the N-electron system are clearly identified in the measured transconductances. Overall, the computed current spectra are found to be in very good agreement with the experimental data.
Time-resolved pump-probe differential transmission measurements have been performed on various sets of quantum cascade lasers below and above threshold. Bias-, temperature-, and polarization dependent studies enable a...
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