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    Employing electro-mechanical analogies for co-resonantly coupled cantilever sensors
    (München : European Geopyhsical Union, 2016) Körner, Julia; Reiche, Christopher F.; Büchner, Bernd; Mühl, Thomas; Gerlach, Gerald
    Understanding the behaviour of mechanical systems can be facilitated and improved by employing electro-mechanical analogies. These analogies enable the use of network analysis tools as well as purely analytical treatment of the mechanical system translated into an electric circuit. Recently, we developed a novel kind of sensor set-up based on two coupled cantilever beams with matched resonance frequencies (co-resonant coupling) and possible applications in magnetic force microscopy and cantilever magnetometry. In order to analyse the sensor's behaviour in detail, we describe it as an electric circuit model. Starting from a simplified coupled harmonic oscillator model with neglected damping, we gradually increase the complexity of the system by adding damping and interaction elements. For each stage, various features of the coupled system are discussed and compared to measured data obtained with a co-resonant sensor. Furthermore, we show that the circuit model can be used to derive sensor parameters which are essential for the evaluation of measured data. Finally, the much more complex circuit representation of a bending beam is discussed, revealing that the simplified circuit model of a coupled harmonic oscillator is a very good representation of the sensor system.
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    Simultaneous magnetic field and field gradient mapping of hexagonal MnNiGa by quantitative magnetic force microscopy
    (London : Springer Nature, 2023) Freitag, Norbert H.; Reiche, Christopher F.; Neu, Volker; Devi, Parul; Burkhardt, Ulrich; Felser, Claudia; Wolf, Daniel; Lubk, Axel; Büchner, Bernd; Mühl, Thomas
    Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) is a scanning microscopy technique that is commonly employed to probe the sample’s magnetostatic stray fields via their interaction with a magnetic probe tip. In this work, a quantitative, single-pass MFM technique is presented that maps one magnetic stray-field component and its spatial derivative at the same time. This technique uses a special cantilever design and a special high-aspect-ratio magnetic interaction tip that approximates a monopole-like moment. Experimental details, such as the control scheme, the sensor design, which enables simultaneous force and force gradient measurements, as well as the potential and limits of the monopole description of the tip moment are thoroughly discussed. To demonstrate the merit of this technique for studying complex magnetic samples it is applied to the examination of polycrystalline MnNiGa bulk samples. In these experiments, the focus lies on mapping and analyzing the stray-field distribution of individual bubble-like magnetization patterns in a centrosymmetric [001] MnNiGa phase. The experimental data is compared to calculated and simulated stray-field distributions of 3D magnetization textures, and, furthermore, bubble dimensions including diameters are evaluated. The results indicate that the magnetic bubbles have a significant spatial extent in depth and a buried bubble top base.
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    Signal enhancement in cantilever magnetometry based on a co-resonantly coupled sensor
    (Frankfurt, M. : Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften, 2016) Körner, Julia; Reiche, Christopher F.; Gemming, Thomas; Büchner, Bernd; Gerlach, Gerald; Mühl, Thomas
    Cantilever magnetometry is a measurement technique used to study magnetic nanoparticles. With decreasing sample size, the signal strength is significantly reduced, requiring advances of the technique. Ultrathin and slender cantilevers can address this challenge but lead to increased complexity of detection. We present an approach based on the co-resonant coupling of a micro- and a nanometer-sized cantilever. Via matching of the resonance frequencies of the two subsystems we induce a strong interplay between the oscillations of the two cantilevers, allowing for a detection of interactions between the sensitive nanocantilever and external influences in the amplitude response curve of the microcantilever. In our magnetometry experiment we used an iron-filled carbon nanotube acting simultaneously as nanocantilever and magnetic sample. Measurements revealed an enhancement of the commonly used frequency shift signal by five orders of magnitude compared to conventional cantilever magnetometry experiments with similar nanomagnets. With this experiment we do not only demonstrate the functionality of our sensor design but also its potential for very sensitive magnetometry measurements while maintaining a facile oscillation detection with a conventional microcantilever setup.
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    Bidirectional quantitative force gradient microscopy
    (Milton Park : Taylor & Francis, 2015) Reiche, Christopher F.; Vock, Silvia; Neu, Volker; Schultz, Ludwig; Büchner, Bernd; Mühl, Thomas
    Dynamic operation modes of scanning force microscopy based on probe resonance frequency detection are very successful methods to study force-related properties of surfaces with high spatial resolution. There are well-recognized approaches to measure vertical force components as well as setups sensitive to lateral force components. Here, we report on a concept of bidirectional force gradient microscopy that enables a direct, fast, and quantitative real space mapping of force component derivatives in both the perpendicular and a lateral direction. It relies solely on multiple-mode flexural cantilever oscillations related to vertical probe excitation and vertical deflection sensing. Exploring this concept we present a cantilever-based sensor setup and corresponding quantitative measurements employing magnetostatic interactions with emphasis on the calculation of mode-dependent spring constants that are the foundation of quantitative force gradient studies.
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    Magnetization Dynamics of an Individual Single-Crystalline Fe-Filled Carbon Nanotube
    (Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2019) Lenz, Kilian; Narkowicz, Ryszard; Wagner, Kai; Reiche, Christopher F.; Körner, Julia; Schneider, Tobias; Kákay, Attila; Schultheiss, Helmut; Weissker, Uhland; Wolf, Daniel; Suter, Dieter; Büchner, Bernd; Fassbender, Jürgen; Mühl, Thomas; Lindner, Jürgen
    The magnetization dynamics of individual Fe-filled multiwall carbon-nanotubes (FeCNT), grown by chemical vapor deposition, are investigated by microresonator ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and Brillouin light scattering (BLS) microscopy and corroborated by micromagnetic simulations. Currently, only static magnetometry measurements are available. They suggest that the FeCNTs consist of a single-crystalline Fe nanowire throughout the length. The number and structure of the FMR lines and the abrupt decay of the spin-wave transport seen in BLS indicate, however, that the Fe filling is not a single straight piece along the length. Therefore, a stepwise cutting procedure is applied in order to investigate the evolution of the ferromagnetic resonance lines as a function of the nanowire length. The results show that the FeCNT is indeed not homogeneous along the full length but is built from 300 to 400 nm long single-crystalline segments. These segments consist of magnetically high quality Fe nanowires with almost the bulk values of Fe and with a similar small damping in relation to thin films, promoting FeCNTs as appealing candidates for spin-wave transport in magnonic applications. © 2019 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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    Magnetic properties of individual Co2FeGa Heusler nanoparticles studied at room temperature by a highly sensitive co-resonant cantilever sensor
    (London : Nature Publishing Group, 2017) Körner, Julia; Reiche, Christopher F.; Ghunaim, Rasha; Fuge, Robert; Hampel, Silke; Büchner, Bernd; Mühl, Thomas
    The investigation of properties of nanoparticles is an important task to pave the way for progress and new applications in many fields of research like biotechnology, medicine and magnetic storage techniques. The study of nanoparticles with ever decreasing size is a challenge for commonly employed methods and techniques. It requires increasingly complex measurement setups, often low temperatures and a size reduction of the respective sensors to achieve the necessary sensitivity and resolution. Here, we present results on how magnetic properties of individual nanoparticles can be measured at room temperature and with a conventional scanning force microscopy setup combined with a co-resonant cantilever magnetometry approach. We investigate individual Co2FeGa Heusler nanoparticles with diameters of the order of 35 nm encapsulated in carbon nanotubes. We observed, for the first time, magnetic switching of these nanoparticles in an external magnetic field by simple laser deflection detection. Furthermore, we were able to deduce magnetic properties of these nanoparticles which are in good agreement with previous results obtained with large nanoparticle ensembles in other experiments. In order to do this, we expand the analytical description of the frequency shift signal in cantilever magnetometry to a more general formulation, taking unaligned sensor oscillation directions with respect to the magnetic field into account.