Compensation of the magnetic force imaging by scanning directions

Jinyun Liu; Miao Yu; Yingmin Qu; Wenxiao Zhang; Yinxue Fan; Zhengxun Song; Renxi Qiu; Dayou Li; Zuobin Wang

doi:10.1016/j.micron.2017.08.005

Compensation of the magnetic force imaging by scanning directions

Micron. 2017 Nov:102:15-20. doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2017.08.005. Epub 2017 Aug 26.

Authors

Jinyun Liu¹, Miao Yu², Yingmin Qu², Wenxiao Zhang², Yinxue Fan², Zhengxun Song², Renxi Qiu³, Dayou Li⁴, Zuobin Wang⁵

Affiliations

¹ International Research Centre for Nano Handling and Manufacturing of China, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China; Institute for Research in Applicable Computing, University of Bedfordshire, Luton LU1 3JU, UK.
² International Research Centre for Nano Handling and Manufacturing of China, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China.
³ Institute for Research in Applicable Computing, University of Bedfordshire, Luton LU1 3JU, UK.
⁴ Institute for Research in Applicable Computing, University of Bedfordshire, Luton LU1 3JU, UK. Electronic address: dayou.li@beds.ac.uk.
⁵ International Research Centre for Nano Handling and Manufacturing of China, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China; Institute for Research in Applicable Computing, University of Bedfordshire, Luton LU1 3JU, UK. Electronic address: wangz@cust.edu.cn.

PMID: 28858637
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2017.08.005

Abstract

It was found that the results of magnetic force microscope (MFM) imaging were different with the probe scanning directions. This paper studied the effect of scanning directions on the MFM imaging, and a method for the distortion compensation was proposed to reduce the errors. In the study, three different scanning directions with the angles of 0°, 45° and 90° were used to measure the magnetic domain structures distributions of magnetic sample. The experimental results have shown that the scanning direction parallel to the magnetic domain structure will cause a minimum phase shift difference and lead to a structure distortion. A method for compensating the distortions was proposed. With this method, the distorted structures were corrected and the effect of scanning directions on the MFM imaging was significantly reduced. This work provides a way for the acquisition of the correct images of magnetic structures using an MFM and the improvement of imaging quality in a wide range of MFM applications.

Keywords: Different scanning directions; Distortion compensation; Magnetic force microscope; Structure distortion.