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Spin structures of nanoscale magnetic dots are the subject of increasing scientific effort, as the confinement of spins imposed by the geometrical restrictions makes these structures comparable to some internal characteristic length scales of the magnet. For a vortex (a ferromagnetic dot with a curling magnetic structure), a spot of perpendicular magnetization has been theoretically predicted to exist at the center of the vortex. Experimental evidence for this magnetization spot is provided by magnetic force microscopy imaging of circular dots of permalloy (Ni(80)Fe(20)) 0.3 to 1 micrometer in diameter and 50 nanometers thick.
[1
]Laboratory of Spintronics and nanomagnetism (LabSpiN), Departamento de Física, Universidade
Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570-900, Minas Gerais, Brazil
[2
]INL-International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, 4715-330 Braga, Portugal