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Magnetic ‘microflowers’ enhance local magnetic fields

March 31, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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Abstract. Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c00422

A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometers in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance magnetic fields. The size of the effect can be controlled by varying the geometry and number of “petals.”

This magnetic metamaterial, developed by Dr. Anna Palau’s group at the Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) in collaboration with her partners of the CHIST-ERA MetaMagIC project, has now been studied at BESSY II in collaboration with Dr. Sergio Valencia.

Such a device can be used to increase the sensitivity of magnetic sensors, to reduce the energy required for creating local magnetic fields, but also, at the PEEM experimental station, to study samples under much higher magnetic fields than currently possible.

Dr. Palau has developed a special metamaterial that looks like tiny flowers under the scanning electron microscope. The petals consist of strips of a ferromagnetic nickel-iron alloy.

The microflowers can be produced in various geometries, not only with different inner and outer radii, but also with variable numbers and widths of petals. This flower-shaped geometry causes the field lines of an external magnetic field to concentrate in the center of the device, resulting in a greatly intensified magnetic field.

The study is published in the journal ACS Nano.

Magnetic metamaterials

“Metamaterials are artificially produced materials with microstructures whose dimensions are smaller than the electromagnetic or thermal waves they are designed to manipulate,” explains Palau.

The physicist is working on magnetic microstructures that can be used in data storage, information processing, biomedicine, catalysis and magnetic sensor technology. By using these metamaterials, the sensitivity of magnetic sensors could be highly increased, as the magnetic field to be detected would be amplified at the center of these systems.

BESSY II: Magnetic 'microflowers' enhance local magnetic fields
(a) Schematic illustration of a typical magnetic metasurface used for magnetic field concentration indicating the main geometrical parameters and the applied magnetic field orientation. (b) False-color SEM image of an actual device with 10 petals, zero gap, Ri = 10 μm, Ri = 10 μm, and R0 = 50 μm. Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c00422

Mapping magnetic domains at BESSY II

Palau, her student Aleix Barrera, and Sergio Valencia have now investigated this at the XPEEM experimental station at BESSY II. They placed a cobalt rod in the center of various microflowers as a sensor for the magnetic field and mapped the magnetic domains inside the cobalt rod.

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“By adjusting the geometric parameters such as shape, size and number of petals, the magnetic behavior can be switched and controlled,” says Valencia. As a result, the sensitivity of a magnetoresistive sensor could be increased by more than two orders of magnitude.

New options, also for experiments at XPEEM

This innovation opens up new technological options for improving the performance of small magnetic sensors and for developing multifunctional magnetic components. In the future, such microstructures could be used to generate much higher magnetic fields locally, which is also of interest for the experimental XPEEM station at BESSY II.

“Our experimental system is a photoemission electron microscope, so magnetic fields deflect the electrons and make the experiments difficult,” says Valencia. “The maximum magnetic field we can normally apply for imaging is about 25 millitesla (mT). With the magnetic field concentrator, where the field is only locally enhanced, we can easily achieve fields five times higher.”

This is very exciting because it opens up the possibility of studying a range of magnetic systems under conditions that have not been possible before.

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