Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/3/035501
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [B: 20310063]
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The magnetic structures of ferromagnetic-film-coated carbon nanotube (CNT) probes and conventional pyramidal probes for a magnetic force microscope (MFM) were simulated using three-dimensional micromagnetic simulation. The CNT-MFM probes with a total probe diameter less than 60 nm are almost uniformly magnetized along the longitudinal direction of the CNT, which is the ideal magnetic structure for MFM observations. On the other hand, the pyramidal probes had a vortex structure around the point tip, which suggests that they require a greater thickness of the ferromagnetic film because only part of the magnetic moment participates in the detection of the z-component of the stray field from samples. The advantages of the CNT-MFM probe are uniform magnetization along the longitudinal direction and magnetic imaging ability using a smaller coating thickness.
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