Dresden 2011 – scientific programme

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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 63: Poster II (Surface Magnetism/ Magnetic Imaging/ Topological Insulators/ Spin Structures and Magnetic Phase Transitions/ Graphene/ Magnetic Thin Films/ Magnetic Semiconductors/ Magnetic Half-metals and Oxides/ Spin-dependent Transport/ Spin Excitations and Spin Torque/ Spin Injection and Spin Currents in Heterostructures/ Spintronics/ Magnetic Storage and Applications)

MA 63.14: Poster

Friday, March 18, 2011, 11:00–14:00, P2

Quantifying magnetic moments µ^→ in magnetic force microscopy (MFM) tips — •Denny Köhler, Peter Milde, Ulrich Zerweck-Trogisch, and Lukas M. Eng — Institut für Angewandte Photophysik, TU Dresden, Deutschland

Measuring quantitative magnetic moments becomes one of the major tasks in nanomagnetic research. Here, we present a novel way to characterize magnetic force microscopy (MFM) tips in homogeneous external magnetic fields. Our methods basis on the deflection of the cantilever caused by the mechanical torque [1] as it is induced by an external magnetic field.

Low temperature measurements of the frequency-shift and static deflection of the cantilever in a variable external magnetic field are used to access the different vectorial components of the magnetic moment µ^→ of the tip. This allows to quantify both the magnitude and 3D spatial orientation of µ^→. Experimental results are compared with the theoretical behaviour of the magnetic dipole moment of the cantilever as calculated by combining a harmonic oscillator model with the minimization of the magnetic energy.