Simon Bending

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Biographical Information

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor, University of Bath 11/89-present
Post-Doc, Max Planck Institut FKF, Stuttgart 10/86-11/89
Post-Doc, IBM Research Laboratories, Zürich 10/85-10/86
Ph.D. (Stanford University) 1985
BA Hons. (Cambridge University) 1979

Research Interests

My current research focusses on understanding the magnetic properties of superconducting and ferromagnetic materials at the nanoscale. This work utilises a range of state-of-the-art Hall probe magnetic imaging and nanomagnetometry systems which have been developed in Bath over the last decade, including a new 300mK scanning Hall microscope. The research is made possible through access to the Departmental suite of class 1000 clean rooms equipped with high resolution electron beam lithography, wet and dry etching and various deposition systems. Recent work in the area of vortex matter in superconductors has focussed on the crossing lattices regime in strongly anisotropic High Tc single crystals under tilted fields as well as spontaneous vortex-antivortex ‘molecules’ in superconducting films containing arrays of strong moment ferromagnetic dots. Work on ferromagnetic materials is centered on FIB irradiation of Co/Pt multilayers to realise artificial domain structures, and studying domain wall resistance and current-driven domain wall motion in them. We are also investigating the magnetic properties of electrodeposited mesoscopic superconducting and ferromagnetic crystals as well as spin-charge textures in hybrid superconductor-dilute magnetic semiconductor structures. Recent work focusses on correlated electron phenomena in exfoliated layered 2D materials with a particular focus on superconductivity and charge density waves.

Keywords

Condensed Matter
Ferromagnetism
Spintronics
Superconductivity
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Semiconductors
Graphene

Q Science (General)
2D Materials

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Projects

3 Active
27 Finished

A New Method for Making Programmable Transducers in MEMS (P-MEMS)

Bending, S.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

15/05/19 → 14/05/21

Project: Research council

Graphene Nanosensors for Scanning Hall Microscopy and Susceptometry

Bending, S. & Wolverson, D.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1/01/18 → 31/12/20

Project: Research council

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics

Bending, S.

1/04/14 → 31/10/22

Project: Research council

Tailoring Magnetic Properties of MN-CR Chalcogenide Alloys and Heterostructures

Wolverson, D. & Bending, S.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

13/07/15 → 12/07/19

Project: Research council

Equipment for Condensed Matter (CDT)

Bending, S.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

15/09/14 → 31/03/15

Project: Research council

Research Output

124 Article
4 Poster
2 Conference contribution
1 Other contribution

Correlation between crystal purity and the charge density wave in 1T-VSe2

Sayers, C., Farrar, L., Bending, S., Cattelan, M., Jones, A., Fox, N., Kociok-Kohn, G., Koshmak, K., Laverock, J., Pasquali, L. & Da Como, E., 29 Feb 2020, In : Physical Review Materials. 4, 025002.

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