title: Multilayered Si/Ni nanosprings and their magnetic properties.
abstract: A two-turn, eight-armed, rectangular Si/Ni heterogeneous nanospring structure on Si(100) has been fabricated using a multilayer glancing-angle deposition technique. The multilayered nanosprings with a height of approximately 1.98 mum were composed of alternating layers of amorphous Si nanorods approximately 580 nm in length and face-centered cubic Ni nanorods approximately 420 nm in length, both with a diameter of approximately 35 nm. The magnetic anisotropy of the nanosprings showed that the in-plane easy and hard axes were parallel and perpendicular to the Ni nanorod plane, respectively. The out-of-plane magnetic hysteresis loop was very sensitive to the applied magnetic field direction when rotating the nanosprings about their in-plane hard axis, and the magnetization measurement revealed that the nanosprings tilted at approximately 7.5 degrees toward the plane of the Si nanorods. The magnetic anisotropy of the nanosprings is determined by their structure, and the experimental results can be interpreted by the shape anisotropy energy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy and Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
authors.forename: Yuping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Junxue
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yiping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Lijiao
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ailin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Jianwang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cai
mesh_terms: D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000737:chemistry; D008280:Magnetics; D008422:Materials Testing; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009532:Nickel / Q000737:chemistry*; D010316:Particle Size; D012825:Silicon / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D009532:Nickel; D012825:Silicon