doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.162engGarcía Serrano, I.Sese Monclús, JavierGuillamon, I.Suderow, H.Vieira, S.Ibarra, M.R.De Teresa, J.M.Thickness-modulated tungsten-carbon superconducting nanostructures grown by focused ion beam induced deposition for vortex pinning up to high magnetic fieldsART-2016-103771We report efficient vortex pinning in thickness-modulated tungsten–carbon-based (W–C) nanostructures grown by focused ion beam induced deposition (FIBID). By using FIBID, W–C superconducting films have been created with thickness modulation properties exhibiting periodicity from 60 to 140 nm, leading to a strong pinning potential for the vortex lattice. This produces local minima in the resistivity up to high magnetic fields (2.2 T) in a broad temperature range due to commensurability effects between the pinning potential and the vortex lattice. The results show that the combination of single-step FIBID fabrication of superconducting nanostructures with built-in artificial pinning landscapes and the small intrinsic random pinning potential of this material produces strong periodic pinning potentials, maximizing the opportunities for the investigation of fundamental aspects in vortex science under changing external stimuli (e.g., temperature, magnetic field, electrical current).2016http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/6442910.3762/bjnano.7.162http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/64429oai:zaguan.unizar.es:64429info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/MDM-2014-0369info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/MAT2014-51982-C2-2-Rinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/MAT2014-51982-C2-1-Rinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FIS2014-54498-RThis project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 679080-PNICTEYESinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/679080/EU/Using extreme magnetic field microscopy to visualize correlated electron materials/PNICTEYESinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/618321/EU/Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies at High Magnetic Fields: Visualizing Pnictide and Heavy Fermion Superconductivity/ExtremeFieldImaginginfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EUR/FP6-COST/MP1201BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY 7 (2016), 1698-1708byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess