Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Nanoscale control of competing interactions and geometrical frustration in a dipolar trident lattice

  • Alan Farhan,
  • Charlotte F. Petersen,
  • Scott Dhuey,
  • Luca Anghinolfi,
  • Qi Hang Qin,
  • Michael Saccone,
  • Sven Velten,
  • Clemens Wuth,
  • Sebastian Gliga,
  • Paula Mellado,
  • Mikko J. Alava,
  • Andreas Scholl,
  • Sebastiaan van Dijken

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01238-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Artificial magnetic nanostructures enable the study of competing frustrated interactions with more control over the system parameters than is possible in magnetic materials. Farhan et al. present a two-dimensional lattice geometry where the frustration can be controlled by tuning the unit cell parameters.