Development opportunity
German researchers have succeeded in reducing the number of layers required to create a magnetic coating in a sensor to one, a development that is expected to make it possible to manufacture more powerful magnetic sensors.
Currently, magnetic multilayer systems for magnetic sensors are comprised of individual films, which are often only a few atomic layers thick. Now scientists from the Leibniz Institute of Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden and from the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, have worked out how to combine the magnetic properties of each different layer materials within a single film.
The single layer, combining hard and soft magnetic properties, is generated by means of ion implantation on a micrometre scale. The scientists now want to generate the layer at a nanometre scale, where they expect to see new properties emerging.
Receive the Funding Newswire [full access requires a subscription] each Tuesday, our Policy Bulletin each Thursday, and news about bridging Europe’s east-west innovation gap twice a month in The Widening. 
A unique international forum for public research organisations and companies to connect their external engagement with strategic interests around their R&D system.
