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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
A New Method for Making Programmable Transducers in MEMS (P-MEMS)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
15/05/19 → 14/05/21
Project: Research council
Graphene Nanosensors for Scanning Hall Microscopy and Susceptometry
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/01/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research council
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics
1/04/14 → 31/10/22
Project: Research council
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
Equipment for Condensed Matter (CDT)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
15/09/14 → 31/03/15
Project: Research council
Research Output
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Chemical Vapour Deposition Graphene Hall Probes for High Resolution Scanning Hall Probe Microscopy
Collomb, D., Li, P. & Bending, S., 23 Jun 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
High quality hydrogen silsesquioxane encapsulated graphene devices with edge contacts
Li, P., Collomb, D. & Bending, S., 15 Dec 2019, In : Materials Letters. 257, 126765.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Mapping the flux penetration profile in a 2G-HTS tape at the microscopic scale: deviations from a classical critical state model
Marchiori Pereira, E. & Bending, S., 1 Feb 2019, In : Superconductor Science and Technology. 32, 2, 025009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Nanoscale CVD Graphene Hall Probes for high resolution Scanning Probe Microscopy
Collomb, D., Li, P., Bending, S. & Wolverson, D., 6 Mar 2019, Bulletin of the American Physical Society. American Physical SocietyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Datasets
Dataset for "Tuning the structure of the Josephson vortex lattice in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals with pancake vortices"
Bending, S. (Creator), Curran, P. (Creator), Mohammed, H. (Creator), Koshelev, A. (Creator), University of Bath, 19 Jul 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00525
Dataset
Dataset for "Continuously Tuneable Critical Current in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Multilayers"
Bending, S. (Creator), University of Bath, 30 Jun 2017
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00386
Dataset
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
Dataset
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
Dataset
Data for the publication: Reconfigurable superconducting vortex pinning potential for magnetic disks in hybrid structures
Marchiori Pereira, E. (Creator), University of Bath, 2017
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00340
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Thesis
Designer 3D Magnetic Mesostructures
Author: Müller, A., 16 Apr 2012Supervisor: Bending, S. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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Development of nanoscale sensors for scanning Hall probe microscopy and investigations of novel vortex phases in highly anisotropic superconductors
Author: Mohammed, H., 1 Apr 2015Supervisor: Bending, S. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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Gate-tunable superconductivity in thin films and layered crystals
Author: Shajari, H., 23 Jul 2018Supervisor: Bending, S. (Supervisor) & Takashina, K. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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Graphene on crystalline insulators: subsurface potentials and screening effects
Author: Jones, G., 1 Jun 2015Supervisor: Ilie, A. (Supervisor), Bending, S. (Supervisor), Crampin, S. (Supervisor) & Raithby, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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Hall Magnetometry of Electrodeposited Superconducting Pb Mesostructures
Author: Engbarth, M., 1 Apr 2010Supervisor: Bending, S. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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