Size controlled cyano-bridged coordination polymer nanoparticles Mn1.5[Cr(CN)6] have been synthesized and organized at the nanolevel by using the room temperature ionic liquid crystal (ILC) C12-MIMBF4. The as-obtained material was studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. These analyses reveal the prese...

In the field of biomedicine magnetic beads are used for drug delivery and to treat hyperthermia. Here we propose to use self-organized bead structures to isolate circulating tumor cells using lab-on-chip technologies. Typically blood flows past microposts functionalized with antibodies for circulating tumor cells. Creating these microposts with interacting magnetic beads makes it possible to tu...

We have fabricated using high-resolution electron beam lithography circular magnetic particles (nanomagnets) of diameter 60 nm and thickness 7 nm out of the common magnetic alloy supermalloy. The nanomagnets were arranged on rectangular lattices of different periods. A high-sensitivity magneto-optical method was used to measure the magnetic properties of each lattice. We show experimentally how...

Classical spin simulations are used to study magnetic reversal in ultra-thin (16 monolayers) films with planar magnetization and surface roughness typical of epitaxially grown samples. Reduced site symmetry at surface steps leads to strong, local anisotropies that both nucleate reversal and pin domain wall motion. The results we obtain from realistic models with periodic roughness are interpret...

The effective large-scale Hamiltonian of a planar system of nano-loops in a weakly excited flux-closed magnetized state has been constructed by means of a perturbative technique based on micromagnetic theory. The Hamiltonian is written by means of two classes of collective variables: the continuous soft spins and discrete vorticity charges. Analytical and numerical calculations of the inter-loo...

Abstmcr. The Cassini spaceaaft , launched in October 1997 to reach Saturn in 2004, carries two magnetometer xperiments on a lo-meter boo”, one at the mid-section of the boom and the other at the end of the boom. In order to gather valid scientific magnetic field data and avoid electromagnetic nterference, the spacecraft had to comply with stringent magnetostatic cleanliness requirements. Amidst...

The paper presents the solution of a three-dimensional (3-D) magnetostatic problem using the finite formulation of an electromagnetic field. Two different approaches, based on a primal-dual barycentric discretization of the 3-D space, are presented, considering as unknowns either the magnetic fluxes or the circulations of the vector potential. Results on simple reference configurations are repo...