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List of works by Stephen McVitie

A new design of specimen stage for in situ magnetising experiments in the transmission electron microscope.

scientific article published in February 2004

A transmission electron microscope study of Néel skyrmion magnetic textures in multilayer thin film systems with large interfacial chiral interaction

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Aberration corrected Lorentz scanning transmission electron microscopy

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Academic performance and student engagement in level 1 physics undergraduates

Artificial Double-Helix for Geometrical Control of Magnetic Chirality

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Brillouin light scattering study of magnetic-element normal modes in a square artificial spin ice geometry

Characterisation of FeBSiC coated MFM tips using Lorentz electron tomography and MFM

Characterisation of MFM tip fields by electron tomography

Chiral Surface Twists and Skyrmion Stability in Nanolayers of Cubic Helimagnets

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Coherent Lorentz Imaging of Soft, Thin-Film Magnetic Materials

Coherent magnetic imaging by TEM

Comment on “Three-Dimensional, Spin-Resolved Structure of Magnetic Vortex and Antivortex States in Patterned Co Films Using Scanning Ion Microscopy with Polarization Analysis”

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Compressed Sensing Electron tomography using adaptive dictionaries: a simulation study

Controlled Individual Skyrmion Nucleation at Artificial Defects Formed by Ion Irradiation

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Controlled Switching in Magnetic Thin Film Elements

Controlled domain wall injection into ferromagnetic nanowires from an optimized pad geometry

Crystallisation progress in Si-rich ultra-soft nanocomposite alloy fabricated by melt spinning

Damage caused to interlayer coupling of magnetic multilayers by residual gases

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 61 no. 6, February 2000

Dependence of domain wall pinning potential landscapes on domain wall chirality and pinning site geometry in planar nanowires

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 79 no. 5, February 2009

Direct comparison of domain wall behavior in permalloy nanowires patterned by electron beam lithography and focused ion beam milling

Direct observation of changes to domain wall structures in magnetic nanowires of varying width

Direct observation of domain wall structures in curved permalloy wires containing an antinotch

Direct observation of magnetization reversal processes in micron-sized elements of spin-valve material

EFFECT OF APPLICATION OF FIELDS ON THE DOMAIN STRUCTURE IN SMALL REGULARLY SHAPED MAGNETIC PARTICLES

Effect of annealing on the magnetic states of FEBID-grown cobalt nanopatterns examined by off-axis electron holography

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Effect of edge structure on switching of patterned elements

Effect of substrate temperature on the magnetic properties of epitaxial sputter-grown Co/Pt

Effects of gas damage on coupling and anisotropy in sputtered Co/Cu multilayers

Electron beam fabrication and characterization of high‐resolution magnetic force microscopy tips

Electron tomography image reconstruction using data-driven adaptive compressed sensing

scientific article

Electrostatic charging artefacts in Lorentz electron tomography of MFM tip stray fields

Engineering Magnetic Domain-Wall Structure in Permalloy Nanowires

Fast Pixelated Detectors in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Part I: Data Acquisition, Live Processing, and Storage

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Focused ion beam irradiation of ferromagnetic thin films in the presence of an applied field

Formation of Magnetic Structure by Domain Wall Confinement in Nanoconstriction

High Resolution Quantitative Lorentz Microscopy

High resolution measurement and modelling of magnetic domain structures in epitaxial FePd (001) L10 films with perpendicular magnetisation

Imaging Amperian currents by Lorentz microscopy

Imaging domains in Co/Pt multilayers by magnetic force microscopy

article published in 1995

Imaging magnetic domain structure in sub-500 nm thin film elements

In-situ Lorentz microscopy of magnetic nanostructures

In-situ magnetising experiments on small regular particles fabricated by electron beam lithography

In-situ magnetising experiments on small regularly shaped permalloy particles

In-situ magnetising experiments using coherent magnetic imaging in TEM

Influence of ion beam assisted deposition parameters on the growth of MgO and CoFeB

Instrumentation, techniques, and applications of electron microscopy in the solid state physics group at Glasgow University.

scientific article

Interactions and switching field distributions of nanoscale magnetic elements

Internal structure of hexagonal skyrmion lattices in cubic helimagnets

Introduction and control of metastable states in elliptical and rectangular magnetic nanoelements

Investigation of the influence of edge structure on the micromagnetic behavior of small magnetic elements

Investigation of the origin of the decrease in exchange biasing in Ga+ ion irradiated CoFe∕IrMn films

article

Lorentz Microscopy in the Study of Magnetic Thin Films

Lorentz TEM Imaging of Stripe Structures Embedded in a Soft Magnetic Matrix

Lorentz microscopy studies of domain wall trap structures

Magnetic force microscopy of soft magnetic materials

Magnetic imaging of magnetic force microscope tips

Magnetic imaging of the pinning mechanism of asymmetric transverse domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires

article published in 2010

Magnetic microscopy and topological stability of homochiral Néel domain walls in a Pt/Co/AlOx trilayer

scientific article

Magnetic properties of magnetite arrays produced by the method of electron beam lithography

scholarly article

Magnetic scanning gate microscopy of CoFeB lateral spin valve

Magnetic soliton confinement and discretization effects arising from macroscopic coherence in a chiral spin soliton lattice

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 92 no. 22, December 2015

Magnetic stray fields of Co‐Cr microstrips measured by Lorentz microscopy

Magnetic structure determination in small regularly shaped particle using transmission electron microscopy

article

Magnetisation distributions in thin film recording heads by Type II contrast

Magnetization of Co elements sensed by semiconductor transport magnetometry and transmission electron microscopy

article

Magnetization processes in single-layer and laminated CoFe films patterned into multiscale elements with write-head-like geometries

Mapping induction distributions by transmission electron microscopy (invited)

article

Measurement of domain wall widths in Permalloy using differential phase contrast imaging in stem

Measuring and tailoring the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in perpendicularly magnetized thin films

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 90 no. 2, July 2014

Medipix2/Timepix detector for time resolved Transmission Electron Microscopy

article

Metastable magnetic domain walls in cylindrical nanowires

Micromagnetic reversal behavior of multiscale permalloy elements

Model stray field calculations of a longitudinal recording medium

Modification of the magnetic properties of exchange coupled NiFe/FeMn films by Ga+ ion irradiation

Modified differential phase contrast Lorentz microscopy for improved imaging of magnetic structures

Multiple dark-field STEM: A new method for beam-sensitive polymers

Nanoscale physical microstructure and micromagnetic behaviour of CoIr film with negative anisotropy

On the origin of differential phase contrast at a locally charged and globally charge-compensated domain boundary in a polar-ordered material.

scientific article published on 19 March 2015

On the scaling behaviour of cross-tie domain wall structures in patterned NiFe elements

Optical properties of Mn-doped ZnS semiconductor nanoclusters synthesized by a hydrothermal process

Optimization of exposure parameters for lift-off process of sub-100 features using a negative tone electron beam resist

article published in 2012

Pinning and hysteresis in the field dependent diameter evolution of skyrmions in Pt/Co/Ir superlattice stacks.

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Pixelated detectors and improved efficiency for magnetic imaging in STEM differential phase contrast

scientific article

Preparation and characterisation of a new amorphous tip coating for application in magnetic force microscopy

article published in 1999

Preparation of high-quality planar FeRh thin films for in situ TEM investigations

Quantitative Fresnel Lorentz microscopy and the transport of intensity equation.

scientific article published on 27 December 2005

Quantitative TEM imaging of the magnetostructural and phase transitions in FeRh thin film systems

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Quantitative field measurements from magnetic force microscope tips and comparison with point and extended charge models

Quantitative imaging of magnetic domain walls in thin films using Lorentz and magnetic force microscopies

Quantitative measurements of phase using the transport of intensity equation

Reconstruction of induction distributions in thin films from DPC images

Reproducible domain wall pinning by linear non-topographic features in a ferromagnetic nanowire

article published in 2012

Resistive switching in ZrO2 films: physical mechanism for filament formation and dissolution

Reversal mechanisms and metastable states in magnetic nanoelements

article published in 2004

Role of vortices in magnetization reversal of rectangular NiFe elements

Skyrmions in magnetic multilayers: chirality, electrical detection and current-induced motion

Spin-transfer torque efficiency measured using a Permalloy nanobridge

article published in 2010

Stability, bistability and instability of amorphous ZrO2resistive memory devices

Stray field and Lorentz image calculation of a longitudinal recording medium

Structural analysis of ion irradiated polycrystalline NiFe/FeMn exchange bias systems

article

Switching of nanoscale magnetic elements

Synthetic ferrimagnet nanowires with very low critical current density for coupled domain wall motion

scientific article published on 09 May 2017

TEM studies of the switching characteristics of small permalloy elements as a function of field orientation

The effect of oblique incidence evaporation on the magnetic properties of thin film elements

The effect of roughness on the micromagnetic properties of high moment multilayer films

The fabrication and magnetic properties of acicular magnetic nano-elements

scholarly article by M. Ruhrig et al published 1996 in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

The influence of evaporation rate on the domain structures of permalloy and cobalt small magnetic particles

scholarly article by H.Y. Wong et al published February 1992 in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Thickness dependence of spin wave excitations in an artificial square spin ice-like geometry

Transition from vortex to transverse walls in NiFe nano-structures

Transitions Between Vortex and Transverse Walls in NiFe Nano-Structures

Transmission electron microscopy characterisation of permalloy elements fabricated by focussed ion beam lithography

article

Transmission electron microscopy study of CoFe films with high saturation magnetization

article

Unexpected exchange bias behaviour in CoFeB ultrathin films for MTJ sensors investigated by Lorentz microscopy

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Very high resolution etching of magnetic nanostructures in organic gases

Visualization of vortex core polarity in NiFe nanodots by tilted Fresnel images

scientific article published on April 14, 2011