Congratulations to Jonathan Wood and Professor Allwood for the publication of their paper on "Control of ferromagnetic properties of Ni80Fe20 thin films by voltage-induced oxidation" in Journal of Applied Physics. Further reading of this article can be found here

SCAMMD members Professor Dan Allwood, Dr Tom Hayward and Richard Dawidek went to OFFSPEC at the ISIS Neutron Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot from the 11th-18th May. Experiments investigating magnetic nanoring arrays with Polarised Neutron Reflectometry (PNR) took place over the course of the visit.

We thank Dr Nina-Juliane Steinke and Dr Jos Cooper for their help and collaboration during our time there.

Alaa Alasadi, Frederik Claeyssens and Dan Allwood published a paper (Laser direct writing (LDW) of magnetic structures) on AIP Advances. Further reading of this article can be found here.

Dr K. A. Omari and T. J. Hayward have published a paper on "A Micromagnetic Protocol for Qualitatively Predicting Stochastic Domain Wall Pinning" in Scientific Reports - Nature! Further reading of this article can be found here.

Congratulations to Professor Allwood who was the keynote speaker at the International Conference on Innovative and Smart Materials (ICISM) 2017, held in Paris from the 11th December to the 13th.

Professor Allwood presented a number of areas of the Functional Materials - Magnetics group relating to his areas of expertise in patterned ferromagnetic nanorings. These included hybrid multi-ferroic systems for controlling domain wall position using applied stress and the nature of domain wall propagation in an array of overlapping NiFe nanorings. 

Congratulations to Mr T. J. Broomhall and T. J. Hayward having published a paper on "Suppression of Stochastic Domain Wall Pinning Through Control of Gilbert Damping" in Scientific Reports - Nature! Further reading of this article can be found here.