Self-assembled surface nanopatterns for magnetic anisotropy engineering

The focus of this presentation will be nanopatterning by different self-assembly mechanisms and how it can be applied for influencing the magnetic properties, mainly magnetic shape anisotropy, of materials.
We would like to show that well-established macroscopic material processing techniques – broad-beam ion irradiation, high-temperature annealing, and physical vapor deposition – can be used to fabricate nanopatterned materials in a bottom-up fashion and to give them tuneable magnetic properties.