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2023

• Heatsink structures for heat-assisted magnetic recording heads, US Patent 11,538,496

2021

• Heatsink structures for heat-assisted magnetic recording heads, US Patent 11,011,201

2019

• M. Gusenbauer, J. Fischbacher, A. Kovacs, H. Oezelt, S. Bance, P. Zhao, T. G. Woodcock, T. Schrefl, “Automated meshing of electron backscatter diffraction data and application to finite element micromagnetics”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Volume 486, 15 September 2019
• Magnetic write transducer with first and second pole sections, US Patent 10,388,307

2018

• Johann Fischbacher, Alexander Kovacs, Markus Gusenbauer, Harald Oezelt, Lukas Exl, Simon Bance and Thomas Schrefl, “Micromagnetics of rare-earth efficient permanent magnets”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 51 (2018) 193002 (17pp); https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aab7d1

2017

• Harald Oezelt, Alexander Kovacs, Johann Fischbacher, Simon Bance, Mark Gubbins, Thomas Schrefl, “Transition Jitter in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording by Micromagnetic Simulation”, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, DOI 10.1109/TMAG.2017.2709840.
• Simon Bance, Florian Bittner, Thomas G. Woodcock, Ludwig Schultz, Thomas Schrefl, “Role of twin and anti-phase defects in MnAl permanent magnets”, Volume 131, 1 June 2017, Pages 48–56, Acta Materialia. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.04.004

2016

• C. H. Gan ; R. Fernandez-Garcia ; M. J. Hardy ; A. Neira ; S. Bance ; M. A. Gubbins, “Design of plasmonic near-field transducers in heat-assisted magnetic recording: 1D Fourier approach”, Proc. SPIE 9921, Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XIV, 99211X (September 17, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2236844

2015

• S. Bance, J. Fischbacher, A. Kovacs, H. Oezelt, F. Reichel, T. Schrefl, “Thermal Activation in Permanent Magnets”, JOM, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 1350–1356, Apr. 2015. DOI:10.1007/s11837-015-1415-7
• P. McGuiness, O. Akdogan, A. Asali, S. Bance, F. Bittner, J. M. D. Coey, N. M. Dempsey, J. Fidler, D. Givord, O. Gutfleisch, M. Katter, D. L. Roy, S. Sanvito, T. Schrefl, L. Schultz, C. Schwöbl, M. Soderžnik, S. Šturm, P. Tozman, K. Üstüner, M. Venkatesan, T. G. Woodcock, K. Žagar, and S. Kobe, “Replacement and Original Magnet Engineering Options (ROMEOs): A European Seventh Framework Project to Develop Advanced Permanent Magnets Without, or with Reduced Use of, Critical Raw Materials,” JOM, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 1306–1317, Apr. 2015. doi: 10.1007/s11837-015-1412-x
• S. Bance, F. Fischbacher, T. Schrefl, “Thermally-activated coercivity in core-shell permanent magnets”, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 117, 17A733, Mar. 2015

2014

• S. Bance, B. Seebacher, T. Schrefl, L. Exl, M. Winklhofer, G. Hrkac, G. Zimanyi, T. Shoji, M. Yano, N. Sakuma, M. Ito, A. Kato, and A. Manabe, “Grain-size dependent demagnetizing factors in permanent magnets,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 116, no. 23, p. 233903, Dec. 2014.
• S. Bance, H. Oezelt, T. Schrefl, M. Winklhofer, G. Hrkac, G. Zimanyi, O. Gutfleisch, R. F. L. Evans, R. W. Chantrell, T. Shoji, M. Yano, N. Sakuma, A. Kato, and A. Manabe, “High energy product in Battenberg structured magnets,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 105, no. 19, p. 192401, Nov. 2014.
• S. Bance, G. Ciuta, T. Shoji, T. Gao, M. Yano, A. Manabe, N. M. Dempsey, T. Schrefl, and D. Givord, “Hard Magnet Coercivity,” in Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Rare earth and Future Permanent Magnets and Their Appications (REPM2014), Annapolis, Maryland, August 2014.
• J. Fischbacher, S. Bance, M. Gusenbauer, A. Kovacs, H. Oezelt, F. Reichel, and T. Schrefl, “Micromagnetics for the Coercivity of Nanocomposite Permanent Magnerts,” in Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Rare earth and Future Permanent Magnets and Their Appications (REPM2014), Annapolis, Maryland, August 2014.
• S. Bance, H. Oezelt, T. Schrefl, G. Ciuta, N. M. Dempsey, D. Givord, M. Winklhofer, G. Hrkac, G. Zimanyi, O. Gutfleisch, T. G. Woodcock, T. Shoji, M. Yano, A. Kato, and A. Manabe, “Influence of defect thickness on the angular dependence of coercivity in rare-earth permanent magnets,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 104, no. 18, p. 182408, May 2014.
• L. Exl, S. Bance, F. Reichel, T. Schrefl, H. P. Stimming, and N. J. Mauser, “LaBonte’s method revisited: An effective steepest descent method for micromagnetic energy minimization,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 115, no. 17, p. 17D118, May 2014.
• S. Bance, J. Fischbacher, T. Schrefl, I. Zins, G. Rieger, and C. Cassignol, “Micromagnetics of shape anisotropy based permanent magnets,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 363, pp. 121–124, 2014.
• M. Gusenbauer, H. Nguyen, F. Reichel, L. Exl, S. Bance, J. Fischbacher, H. Özelt, A. Kovacs, M. Brandl, and T. Schrefl, “Guided self-assembly of magnetic beads for biomedical applications,” Physica B: Condensed Matter, vol. 435, pp. 21–24, Feb. 2014.
• Kovacs, H. Oezelt, S. Bance, J. Fischbacher, M. Gusenbauer, F. Reichel, L. Exl, T. Schrefl, and M. E. Schabes, “Numerical optimization of writer geometries for bit patterned magnetic recording,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 115, no. 17, p. 17B704, Jan. 2014.

2013

• M. Gusenbauer, H. Özelt, J. Fischbacher, F. Reichel, L. Exl, S. Bance, N. Kataeva, C. Binder, H. Brückl, and T. Schrefl, “Simulation of magnetic active polymers for versatile microfluidic devices,” EPJ Web of Conferences, vol. 40, p. 02001, 2013.
• S. Bance, F. Reichel, R. Dietz, A. San-Millan-Martinez, and Bayasgalan ZaghdkorolSystem Dynamics models for improved power plant operation planning” Presented at The 4th International Conference on Optimization, Simulation and Control, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 1-4, 2013.
• F. Reichel, T. Schrefl, D. Suess, G. Hrkac, D. Praetorius, M. Gusenbauer, S. Bance, H. Oezelt, J. Fischbacher, and L. Exl, “Mechanical Oscillations of Magnetic Strips under the Influence of External Field,” EPJ Web of Conferences, vol. 40, p. 13004, 2013.
• J. Fischbacher, S. Bance, L. Exl, M. Gusenbauer, H. Oezelt, F. Reichel, and T. Schrefl, “Enhanced nucleation fields due to dipolar interactions in nanocomposite magnets,” Eur. Phys. J. B, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 1–6, Mar. 2013.

2012

• L. Exl, W. Auzinger, S. Bance, M. Gusenbauer, F. Reichel, and T. Schrefl, “Fast stray field computation on tensor grids,” Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 231, no. 7, pp. 2840–2850, Apr. 2012.
• M. Gusenbauer, A. Kovacs, F. Reichel, L. Exl, S. Bance, H. Özelt, and T. Schrefl, “Self-organizing magnetic beads for biomedical applications,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 324, no. 6, pp. 977–982, Mar. 2012.
• M. T. Bryan, S. Bance, J. Dean, T. Schrefl, and D. A. Allwood, “Transverse and vortex domain wall structure in magnetic nanowires with uniaxial in-plane anisotropy,” J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, vol. 24, no. 2, p. 024205, Jan. 2012.

2011

• Gusenbauer, I. Cimrak, S. Bance, L. Exl, F. Reichel, H. Oezelt, T. Schrefl, “A tunable cancer cell filter using magnetic beads: cellular and fluid dynamic simulations”, arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.0995 (2011).

2009

• J. S. Dean, M. T. Bryan, D. A. Allwood, S. Bance, M. A. Bashir, G. Hrkac, A. Goncharov, and T. Schrefl, “Tailoring Domain-Wall Dynamics With Uniaxial Anisotropy in Nanowires,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 4067–4069, Oct. 2009.
• M. A. Bashir, T. Schrefl, D. Suess, J. Dean, A. Goncharov, G. Hrkac, S. Bance, D. A. Allwood, and J. Fidler, “Exchange Coupled Bit Patterned Media Under the Influence of RF-Field Pulses,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 3851–3854, Oct. 2009.
• S. Bance, “Data storage and processing using magnetic nanowires”, PhD Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009.
• G. Winkler, D. Suess, J. Lee, J. Fidler, M. A. Bashir, J. Dean, A. Goncharov, G. Hrkac, S. Bance, and T. Schrefl, “Microwave-assisted three-dimensional multilayer magnetic recording,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 94, no. 23, p. 232501, Jun. 2009.
• G. Hrkac, T. Schrefl, J. Dean, A. Goncharov, S. Bance, D. Allwood, D. Suess, and J. Fidler, “Micromagnetics of single and double point contact spin torque oscillators,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, no. 8, p. 083923, Apr. 2009.
• G. Hrkac, T. Schrefl, J. Dean, A. Goncharov, S. Bance, D. Suess, and J. Fidler, “Internal effective field sources for spin torque nanopillar oscillators,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, no. 5, p. 053901, Mar. 2009.

2008

• M. A. Bashir, T. Schrefl, J. Dean, A. Goncharov, G. Hrkac, S. Bance, D. Allwood, and D. Suess, “Microwave-Assisted Magnetization Reversal in Exchange Spring Media,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 3519–3522, Nov. 2008.
• G. Hrkac, T. Schrefl, S. Bance, D. Allwood, A. Goncharov, J. Dean, and D. Suess, “Mutual phase locking in high-frequency microwave nano-oscillators as a function of field angle,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 320, no. 17, pp. L111–L115, Sep. 2008.
• J. Dean, M. A. Bashir, A. Goncharov, G. Hrkac, S. Bance, T. Schrefl, A. Cazacu, M. Gubbins, R. W. Lamberton, and D. Suess, “Thermally induced adjacent track erasure in exchange spring media,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 92, no. 14, p. 142505, Apr. 2008.
• S. Bance, T. Schrefl, G. Hrkac, A. Goncharov, D. A. Allwood, and J. Dean, “Micromagnetic calculation of spin wave propagation for magnetologic devices,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 103, no. 7, p. 07E735, Mar. 2008.
• V. Goncharov, T. Schrefl, G. Hrkac, and S. Bance, “Effect of shields in perpendicular recording,” Physica B: Condensed Matter, vol. 403, no. 2–3, pp. 278–281, Feb. 2008.
• T. Schrefl, G. Hrkac, A. Goncharov, J. Dean, S. Bance, M. A. Bashir, and D. Suess, “Finite Element/Boundary Element Simulation of Future Hard Disk Recording,” in Proceedings of the WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computing Conference, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA, 2008, pp. 430–435.

2007

• T. Schrefl, G. Hrkac, S. Bance, D. Suess, O. Ertl, and J. Fidler, “Numerical Methods in Micromagnetics (Finite Element Method),” in Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2007.
• A. Goncharov, T. Schrefl, G. Hrkac, J. Dean, S. Bance, D. Suess, O. Ertl, F. Dorfbauer, and J. Fidler, “Recording simulations on graded media for area densities of up to 1 Tbit/in^2,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, no. 22, pp. 222502–222502–3, Nov. 2007.
• G. Hrkac, S. Bance, A. Goncharov, T. Schrefl, and D. Suess, “Thermal stability of bubble domains in ferromagnetic discs,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol. 40, no. 9, p. 2695, May 2007.

2006

• S. Bance, T. Schrefl, G. Hrkac, D. Suess, C. Brownlie, S. McVitie, J. N. Chapman, and D. A. Allwood, “Transitions Between Vortex and Transverse Walls in NiFe Nano-Structures,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 2966–2968, Oct. 2006.