Proposta para realização de correntes magnéticas em gelos de spin artificiais

• Autor(a) principal: Loreto, Renan Pires
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4272
• topic: Eletromagnetismo; Materiais nanoestruturados; Física no estado sólido; Electromagnetism; Nanostructured materials; Physical solid; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::FISICA::FISICA DA MATERIA CONDENSADA

Spin ice is a substance that does not have a single minimal­energy state. Even at very lower temperatures, these compounds shows a residual entropy as well as the water ice. The magnetic ordering of a spin ice resembles the position of hydrogen atoms in water ice, arranged in a tetrahedron and obeying the the ice rule. The most prominent ice spin compounds are holmium titanate and dysprosium titanate. This system is subject to geometrical frustration, when all interactions between pairs are not satisfied simultaneously. The artificial spin ice are structures that have magnetic monodomains subject to geometrical frustration generating mono pole ­ antimonopole pairs (or magnetic charges ) connected by an observable string. As the flow of electrical charges produces electric current, magnetic monopoles that can walk freely generate something like a magnetic current in these frustrated systems. In this work we manufacture and characterize structures of artificial spin ice, produced by nanolithography techniques, arranged in a rectangular unidirectional lattice and characterized by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM). We note that for this particular lattice, the experimental results of ground state are consistent with the theoretical results also presented in this dissertation. Thus, these systems of artificial spin ice are a proposal for a practical use of magnetic currents caused by application of an external magnetic field. This system can be used at room temperature and its parameters, as nanoislands size and lattice spacing can be turned at will.