Staff profile

Dr Del Atkinson, PhD

Reader in the Department of Physics

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43592

Room number: 26

Member of the Centre for Materials Physics

Member of the Durham X-ray Centre

Tutor of St Chad's College

(email at del.atkinson@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Teaching activity

First year laboratories MSci project supervision

Research interests

Magnetization processes, nanomagnetism, spintronic interactions, nanoscale lithography, pulsed field magnetometry

Research Groups

Centre for Materials Physics

Publications

Journal papers: academic

Hickey, M.C. Ngo, D.-T. Lepadatu, S. Atkinson, D. , McGrouther, D. McVitie, S. & Marrows, C.H. (2010). Spin-transfer torque efficiency measured using a Permalloy nanobridge. Applied Physics Letters 97(20): 202505.
Bogart, L.K., Atkinson, D. , O'Shea, K. McGrouther, D. & McVitie, S. (2009). Dependence of domain wall pinning potential landscapes on domain wall chirality and pinning site geometry in planar nanowires. Physical Review B 79(5): 054414.
Lepadatu, S. Vanhaverbeke, A. Atkinson, D. , Allenspach, R. & Marrows, C.H. (2009). Dependence of domain-wall depinning threshold current on pinning profile. Physical Review Letters 102(12): 127203.
Atkinson, D. , Eastwood, D.S. & Bogart, L.K. (2008). Controlling Domain Wall Pinning in Planar Nanowires by Selecting Domain Wall Type and its Application in a Memory Concept. Applied Physics Letters 92(2): 022510.
Buchanan, James D. R., Cowburn, Russell P., Jausovec, Ana-Vanessa, Petit, Dorothée, Seem, Peter, Xiong, Gang, Atkinson, Del, & Fenton, Kate, Allwood, Dan A. and Bryan, Matthew T. (2005). Forgery: `Fingerprinting' documents and packaging. Nature 436: 475-.
Allwood DA, Xiong G, Faulkner CC, Atkinson D, Petit D & Cowburn RP (2005). Magnetic Domain-wall Logic. Science 309: 1688-1692.
Atkinson, D. & Cowburn, R.P. (2005). Pulsed-field and heat-assisted magnetization switching behaviour in elongated sub-micrometer Permalloy structures. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 290: 165-167.
Heyderman, L. J., Solak, H.H., David, C., Atkinson, D., Cowburn, R. P. & Nolting, F. (2004). Arrays of nanoscale magnetic dots: Fabrication by x-ray interference lithography and characterization. Applied Physics Letters 85(21): 4989-4991.
Faulkner, Colm C., Cooke, Michael D., Allwood, Dan A., & Petit, Dorothée, Atkinson, Del and Cowburn, Russell P. (2004). Artificial domain wall nanotraps in Ni₈₁Fe₁₉ wires. Journal of Applied Physics 95: 6717-6719.
Allwood, D. A., Xiong, Gang, Cooke, M. D., Faulkner, C. & C., Atkinson, D. and Cowburn, R. P. (2004). Characterization of submicrometer ferromagnetic NOT gates. Journal of Applied Physics 95: 8264-8270.
Vernier, N., Allwood, D. A., Atkinson, D., Cooke, M. D., & and Cowburn, R. P. (2004). Domain wall propagation in magnetic nanowires by spin-polarized current injection. Europhysics Letters 65: 526-532.
Bryan, M. T., Atkinson, D. and Cowburn, R. P. (2004). Experimental study of the influence of edge roughness on magnetization switching in Permalloy nanostructures. Applied Physics Letters 85: 3510-.
Atkinson, D. & Cowburn, R.P. (2004). Heat-assisted magnetization switching in elongated submicrometer Permalloy structures. Applied Physics Letters 85: 1386-.
Petit D, Atkinson D, Johnston S, Wood D & Cowburn RP (2004). Room Temperature Performance Of Submicron Bismuth Hall Probes. Iee Proceedings-science Measurement And Technology 151: 127-130.
Cooke, M. D., Atkinson, D., Hibbert, M., Xiong, G., & Allwood, D. A. and Cowburn, R. P. (2003). Comparison of simple low-energy ion sources for direct deposition of submicron structures. Nanotechnology 14: 416-422.
Faulkner CC, Allwood DA, Cooke MD, Xiong G, Atkinson D & Cowburn RP (2003). Controlled Switching Of Ferromagnetic Wire Junctions By Domain Wall Injection. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 39: 2860-2862.
Atkinson D, Allwood DA, Faulkner CC, Xiong G, Cooke MD & Cowburn RP (2003). Magnetic Domain Wall Dynamics In A Permalloy Nanowire. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 39: 2663-2665.
Atkinson D., Allwood D. A., Xiong G., Cooke M. D., Faulkner C. C. & Cowburn R. P. (2003). Magnetic domain-wall dynamics in a submicrometre ferromagnetic structure. Nature Materials 2(2): 85-87.
Cooke, M. D., Allwood, D. A., Atkinson, D., Xiong, G., & Faulkner, C. C. and Cowburn, R. P. (2003). Thin single layer materials for device application. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 257: 387-396.
Cowburn, Russell P., Allwood, Daniel A., Xiong, Gang, & Atkinson, Del and Cooke, Michael D. (2002). Memory effect and logic operation in L-shaped magnetic nanostructures. APS Meeting Abstracts 15003-.
Allwood, D. A., Vernier, N., Xiong, Gang, Cooke, M. D., & Atkinson, D., Faulkner, C. C. and Cowburn, R. P. (2002). Shifted hysteresis loops from magnetic nanowires. Applied Physics Letters 81: 4005-4007.
Allwood, D. A., Xiong, G., Cooke, M. D., Faulkner, C. C., Atkinson, D., Vernier, N. & Cowburn, R. P. (2002). Submicrometer ferromagnetic NOT gate and shift register. Science 296(5575): 2003-2006.
Atkinson, D., Allwood, D. A., Cooke, M. D. and Cowburn, & R. P. (2001). Nanosecond pulsed field magnetization reversal in thin-film NiFe studied by Kerr effect magnetometry. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics 34: 3019-3023.
Barandiaran JM, Gutierrez J, Garcia-arribas A, Squire PT & Atkinson D (2000). Magnetoelastic Coupling Constant Of Amorphous Ferromagnetic Alloys - A Critical Study. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 36: 3241-3243.
Sánchez, M.L., Squire, P.T. & Atkinson, D. (1999). ΔE effect in amorphous microwires and fibres. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 195: 362-365.
Gutiérrez, J., Atkinson, D., Squire, P. T. and Barandiarán, & J. M. (1999). Domain wall motion influence on the magnetoimpedance effect. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 196: 169-170.
Atkinson, D. & Squire, P.T. (1998). Phenonemological model for magnetoimpedance in soft ferromagnets. Journal of Applied Physics 83: 6569-6571.
Atkinson D & Squire PT (1997). Experimental And Phenomenological Investigation Of The Effect Of Stress On Magneto-impedance In Amorphous Alloys. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 33: 3364-3366.
Pearson J, Squire PT & Atkinson D (1997). Which Anhysteretic Magnetization Curve? Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 33: 3970-3972.
Hašlar, V., Závěta, K., Kraus, L., Atkinson, D., Squire, P. & T. and Gibbs, M. R. J. (1996). A magnetoelastic study of a transverse creep-induced magnetic anisotropy in an FeNb-based amorphous alloy. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 153: 63-74.
Atkinson, D. & Duhaj, P. (1996). Magnetoelastic behaviour of amorphous bimetallic ribbons. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 157: 156-158.
Atalay, S., Squire, P. T., Atkinson, D. and Hogsdon, S. & N. (1996). Magnetoelastic properties of annealed Co_72.5Si_12.5B₁₅ amorphous wires. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 157: 145-146.
Atkinson, D., Squire, P.T. & Atalay, S. (1996). The effect of annealing and crystallization on the magnetoelastic properties of Co-Si-B amorphous wires. Journal of Applied Physics 79: 1664-1669.
García-Arribas, A., Squire, P. T., Hogsdon, S. N., & Atkinson, D., Barandiarán, J. M. and Gutiérez, J. (1995). Comparison of magnetoelastic resonance and vibrating reed measurements of the large ΔE effect in amorphous alloys. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 140: 273-274.
Squire, P.T. & Atkinson, D. (1995). Domain structure observations of as-cast and annealed iron-based amorphous wires. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 140: 1901-1902.
Atkinson D, Beach RS, Squire PT, Platt CL & Hogsdon SN (1995). Magneto-impedance And Delta-e Measurements Of Iron-based And Cobalt-based Amorphous Wires. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 31: 3892-3894.
Squire PT, Atkinson D & Atalay S (1995). Magnetostrictive And Magnetoelastic Properties Of Rapidly Quenched Wire. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 31: 1239-1248.
Squire, P.T., Hogsdon, S.N. & Atkinson, D. (1995). The use of high-resolution ΔE measurements to study domain processes in soft ferromagnets. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 140: 1913-1914.
Squire, P. T., Atkinson, D., Gibbs, M. R. J. and Atalay, & S. (1994). Amorphous wires and their applications. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 132: 10-21.
Hogsdon SN, Squire PT & Atkinson D (1994). Design Of A Digitally Based Delta-epsilon Measurement System. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 30: 4569-4571.
Hogsdon SN, Squire PT & Atkinson D (1994). Domain-structure Studies By Means Of High-resolution Delta-epsilon Measurements. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 30: 4803-4805.
Atkinson D & Squire PT (1994). Engineering Magnetostriction Measurements Of Annealed Fesib Amorphous Wires. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 30: 4782-4784.
Atkinson, D., Squire, P. T., Gibbs, M. R. J. and Hogsdon, & S. N. (1994). Implications of magnetic and magnetoelastic measurements for the domain structure of FeSiB amorphous wires. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics 27: 1354-1362.
Atkinson, D., Gibbs, M. R. J., Squire, P. T. and & Pankhurst, Q. (1994). The magnetic and magnetoelastic properties of surface crystallized iron-based amorphous wire. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 131: 19-28.
Atkinson D, Squire PT, Gibbs MRJ & Yamasaki J (1993). High-resolution Delta-e Measurements Of Fe-si-b Amorphous Wire. Ieee Transactions On Magnetics 29: 3478-3480.
Atkinson, D., Squire, P. T., Gibbs, M. R. J., Atalay, S., & and Lord, D. G. (1993). The effect of annealing and crystallization on the magnetoelastic properties of Fe-Si-B amorphous wire. Journal of Applied Physics 73: 3411-3417.
Piper, J. D. A., Atkinson, D., Norris, S. and Thomas, S. (1991). Palaeomagnetic study of the Derbyshire lavas and intrusions, central England: definition of Carboniferous apparent polar wander. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 69: 37-55.