Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smith, Elliot J
• Makarov, Denys
• Sanchez, Samuel
• Fomin, Vladimir M
• Schmidt, Oliver G

Titel

Magnetic microhelix coil structures

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2011-08, Vol.107 (9), p.097204-097204, Article 097204

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

American Physical Society Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Together with the well-known ferro- and antiferromagnetic ordering, nature has created a variety of complex helical magnetic configurations. Here, we design and investigate three-dimensional microhelix coil structures that are radial-, corkscrew-, and hollow-bar-magnetized. The magnetization configurations of the differently magnetized coils are experimentally revealed by probing their specific dynamic response to an external magnetic field. Helix coils offer an opportunity to realize microscale geometries of the magnetic toroidal moment, observed so far only in bulk multiferroic materials.