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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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- Q Science (General)
- 2D Materials
- Condensed Matter
- Ferromagnetism
- Spintronics
- Superconductivity
- Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Semiconductors
- Graphene
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Magnetic Metasurfaces for Sustainable Information and Communication
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/03/22 → 28/02/25
Project: Research council
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A New Method for Making Programmable Transducers in MEMS (P-MEMS)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
15/05/19 → 14/02/22
Project: Research council
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Graphene Nanosensors for Scanning Hall Microscopy and Susceptometry
Bending, S., Wolverson, D., Yuan, W. & Li, P.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/01/18 → 30/06/21
Project: Research council
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Tailoring Magnetic Properties of MN-CR Chalcogenide Alloys and Heterostructures
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
13/07/15 → 12/07/19
Project: Research council
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Microscale Metasurfaces for On-Chip Magnetic Flux Concentration
Fourneau, E., Arregi, J. A., Barrera, A., Nguyen, N. D., Bending, S., Sanchez, A., Uhlíř, V., Palau, A. & Silhanek, A. V., 7 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Materials Technologies. 9 p., 2300177.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The search for spontaneous edge currents in Sr2RuO4 mesa structures with controlled geometrical shapes
Curran, P. J., Bending, S. J., Gibbs, A. S. & Mackenzie, A. P., 31 Dec 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 1, 10 p., 12652.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Novel In Situ High-Temperature Magnetometry Method for Radiofrequency Heating Applications
Noble, J. P. P., Bending, S. J., Sartbaeva, A., Muxworthy, A. R. & Hill, A. K., 6 Jan 2022, In: Advanced Energy Materials. 12, 1, 13 p., 2102515.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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High resolution magnetic microscopy based on semi-encapsulated graphene Hall sensors
Li, P., Collomb, D., Lim, Z. J., Dale, S., Shepley, P., Burnell, G. & Bending, S. J., 31 Jul 2022, In: Applied Physics Letters. 121, 4, 043502.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Optimisation of processing conditions during CVD growth of 2D WS2 films from a chloride precursor
Campbell, W. R., Reale, F., Sundaram, R. & Bending, S. J., 31 Jan 2022, In: Journal of Materials Science. 57, 2, p. 1215–1229 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (SciVal)8 Downloads (Pure)
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Dataset for "Imaging of strong vortex pinning in GdBaCuO high temperature superconducting tapes under external fields"
Collomb, D. (Creator), Bending, S. (Creator), Yuan, W. (Creator) & Zhang, M. (Creator), University of Bath, 21 Apr 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00945
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Dataset for "Observing the suppression of superconductivity in RbEuFe4As4 by correlated magnetic fluctuations"
Collomb, D. (Creator), Bending, S. (Creator), Farrar, L. (Creator), Koshelev, A. (Researcher), Welp, U. (Researcher), Smylie, M. (Researcher), Bao, J. (Researcher), Chung, D. Y. (Researcher), Kanatzidis, M. G. (Researcher) & Kwok, W. (Researcher), University of Bath, 14 Apr 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00711
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Dataset for "Superconducting Quantum Interference in Twisted van der Waals Heterostructures"
Farrar, L. S. (Creator), Nevill, A. (Creator), Lim, Z. J. (Creator), Balakrishnan, G. (Creator) & Bending, S. (Creator), University of Bath, 11 Nov 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01090
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Dataset for: "Nanoscale graphene Hall sensors for high-resolution magnetic imaging"
Collomb, D. (Creator), Li, P. (Creator) & Bending, S. (Creator), University of Bath, 8 Oct 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00587
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Dataset for "High quality hydrogen silsesquioxane encapsulated graphene devices with edge contacts"
Li, P. (Creator), Collomb, D. (Creator) & Bending, S. (Creator), University of Bath, 28 Oct 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00718
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