Abstract
Hybrid nanostructures of magnetic Ni dots embedded in superconducting Nb films have been fabricated. The dot arrays show bicrystal-like structures with an interface which separates two different dot arrangements in the same array. Vortex lattice dynamics is studied on these particular bi-arrays using magnetotransport measurements. Commensurability and rectifier (ratchet) effects have been observed. Matching between the vortex lattice and the pinning bi-array is only governed by the interplay between the densities of vortices and pinning centers. In bi-arrays with dissimilar pinning densities, for vortex flow parallel to the boundary, the highest pinning center density governs the matching effects. Hybrid samples with only half of the array with asymmetric potentials show a ratchet effect; that is input ac currents yield a net flow of vortices.
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