Arrays of Electroplated Multilayered Co/Cu Nanowires with Controlled Magnetic Anisotropy

Abstract

The controlled production of arrays of nanowires exhibiting outstanding characteristics is recently attracting much interest owing to their applications in a number of emerging technologies related with multifunctional biosensor applications, controlled optomagnetic response, magnetic storage, magnetotransport, or catalytic performance. While nanolitography methodes require sophisticated experimental facilities, an alternative technique that makes use of much simpler conventional anodization and electrodeposition methods in the fabrication of metallic nanowires arrays is increasingly employed. This method allows the preparation of arrays of highly‐ordered nanopores induced by anodisation, and its filling with metallic elements by electrodepositon.