Cobalt oxides display a plethora of interesting properties like other strongly correlated transition metal oxides but are still poorly known.
Eduardo Solano, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), obtained his PhD degree last November 2013 with a work about nanocomposite superconducting layers. Some of the measurements were acquired at BOREAS beamline in ALBA Synchrotron.
An international collaboration among researchers from Nanjing University (China), the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Germany) and the ALBA Synchrotron (Spain) has discovered new aspects regarding the microscopic magnetic mechanisms in cobalt nanostructures. This research will contribute to a better understanding of the magnetic exchange bias systems used for magnetic information storage devices, enabling the production of smaller hard disks with a higher information density. This is the first published paper with data collected at BOREAS beamline.
