Fabrication via Electrochemical Oxidation of Self-Assembled Monolayers and Site- Selective Derivatization of Surface Templates

Höppener, Stephanie; Schubert, Ulrich S.

Abstract:

The technological impact of magnetic materials in various fields of technology has fueled sustained research into the magnetic properties of different materials. As a result, novel phenomena, such as for example, the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect and tunneling magnetoresistance have been discovered and are currently integrated into devices, such as magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices, and will contribute to the further success of magnetic devices. With improving structuring techniques that allow the fabrication of magnetic structures with decreasing device dimensions additional properties of such structures become accessable and offer new possibilities for the effective construction of new devices. Even with common magnetic materials, tremendous developments have been achieved to enlarge and speed-up magnetic data-storage capacities in the last decades and significant economical benefits are based on their rapid development. Therefore research efforts address crucially the task of pushing the size limits of individual storage bits to a minimum. This is regarded as a key issue for fundamental and applied research.

Year:

2005

Type of Publication:

Article

Journal:

Small

Volume:

6

Pages:

628 - 632