The new class of phenomena described in this review is based on the interaction between
spatially separated, but closely located ferromagnets and superconductors, the so-called …

The theoretical and experimental results concerning the thermodynamical and low-
frequency transport properties of hybrid structures, consisting of spatially separated …

We fabricated a device that controls the motion of flux quanta in a niobium superconducting
film grown on an array of nanoscale triangular pinning potentials. The controllable …

Triangular arrays of submicrometer magnetic dots, with typical spacing of 400–600 nm and
diameters close to 200 nm, have been fabricated by electron beam lithography to study …

The fabrication methods and physical properties of ordered magnetic nanostructures with
dimensions on the submicron to nanometer scale are reviewed. First, various types of …

This review is dedicated to summarizing the recent research on vortex dynamics and
pinning effects in superconducting films with artificial magnetic structures. The fabrication of …

We argue that superconductor/ferromagnet multilayers of nanoscale period should exhibit
strong pinning of vortices by the magnetic domain structure in magnetic fields below the …

In superconductors, the motion of vortices introduces unwanted dissipation that is disruptive
to applications. Fortunately, material defects can immobilize vortices, acting as vortex …

Periodic pinning arrays can give rise to commensurability effects for the vortex pinning in
superconductors. We studied the influence of size and separation of the individual pinning …

On the basis of a phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau approach we investigate the problem
of order parameter nucleation in hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet systems with a domain …