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Northern Illinois University

2022

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Magnetic Charge Ordering Of Pinwheel Artificial Spin Ice In In-Plane External Magnetic Fields And Its Application For Tunable Vortex Pinning, Timothy Draher Jan 2022

Magnetic Charge Ordering Of Pinwheel Artificial Spin Ice In In-Plane External Magnetic Fields And Its Application For Tunable Vortex Pinning, Timothy Draher

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Pinwheel artificial spin ice (ASI) systems fabricated using permalloy nanobars offer tunable control of superconducting vortices in an ASI-superconductor hybrid. Vortex pinningis achieved by tuning the ordering of the ASI’s magnetic charge distribution via an external field to create an optimal potential energy landscape to which superconducting vortex motion can be impeded or pinned. Magnetic charge ordering in a pinwheel ASI is visualized using MuMax3 micromagnetic simulations to aid in characterizing the correlation of charge ordering amongst the spin ice system with the application of the external field. Vortex pinning is characterized in a sample of pinwheel spin ice patterned …