Nanopatterning of solid surfaces by low-energy ion bombardment has received
considerable interest in recent years. This interest was partially motivated by promising …

Ion beam irradiation of solid surfaces may result in the self-organized formation of well-
defined topographic nanopatterns. Depending on the irradiation conditions and the material …

Magnetism is a collective phenomenon. Hence, a local variation on the nanoscale of
material properties, which act on the magnetic properties, affects the overall magnetism in …

We investigate the influence of a nanoscale periodic ripple morphology on the structure and
magnetocrystalline anisotropy of thin ferromagnetic (FM) Ni 81 Fe 19, Co, and Fe films. The …

Abstract Si (1 0 0) is bombarded with 200 keV Ar+ ion beam at oblique incidence with
fluences ranging from 3× 10 17 ions/cm 2 to 3× 10 18 ions/cm 2. The surface morphology of …

The morphology of different amorphous or amorphized SiO 2 surfaces, including thermally
grown films, fused silica, and single crystalline quartz, during low energy ion sputtering has …

The role of monoatomic steps at the mutual interface between a ferromagnetic and an
antiferromagnetic layer in a Ni 81 Fe 19∕ Fe 50 Mn 50 exchange bias system is …

In this study, the development of uniaxial magnetic anisotropy (UMA) and out-of-plane
coercivity (H c┴) in W/Co 20 Fe 60 B 20 (CoFeB)/W structures by tuning the annealing …

We present a method to preselect the direction of an induced in-plane uniaxial magnetic
anisotropy (UMA) in thin single-crystalline Fe films on MgO (001). Ion beam irradiation is …

The formation of nanopatterns induced by low-energy (0.5–1.5 keV) Xe+ ion-beam
sputtering of amorphous alumina thin films is investigated by atomic force microscopy and …