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The financial support of the Spanish MINECO MAT2014-53921-R,FIS2013-45469 and FIS2016-76058 (AEI) and the Aragonese DGAIMANA E34 and CAMRADS E69, all of them cofunded by Fondo SocialEuropeo and European Union FEDER funds, is acknowledged. A. H-Racknowledges the support from FCT of Portugal (Grant SFRH/BPD/90471/2012). ; Herrero-Albillos, J., Castán-Guerrero, C., Valdés-Bango, F., Bartolomé, J., Bartolomé, F., Kronast, F., Hierro-Rodriguez, A., Álvarez Prado, L.M., Martín, J.I., Vélez, M., Alameda, J.M., Sesé, J., García, L.M.

Under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY).-- et al. ; The crossover from antidot to dot magnetic behavior on arrays patterned in a ferromagnetic thin film has been achieved by modifying only the geometry. A series of antidot arrays has been fabricated on cobalt with fixed diameter d and by reducing the period of the array p from pd to p

The study of ratchet and crossed-ratchet effects in magnetic domain wall motion through 2D arrays of asymmetric holes is extended in this article to the submicrometric limit in hole size (small size regime). Therefore, the gap has been closed between the 2D ratchets in the range of tens-of-micrometers (large size regime) and the small size regime 1D ratchets based on nanowires. The combination of Kerr microscopy, X-ray PhotoEmission Electron Microscopy and micromagnetic simulations has allowed a full magnetic characterisation of both the domain wall (DW) propagation process over the whole array and the local DW morphology and pinning at the holes. It is found that the 2D small size limit is driven by the interplay between DW elasticity and half vortex propagation along hole edges: as hole size becomes comparable to DW width, flat DW propagation modes are favoured over kinked DW propagation due to an enhancement of DW stiffness, and pinned DW segments adopt asymmetric configurations related with Néel DW chirality. Nevertheless, both ratchet and crossed-ratchet effects have been experimentally found, and we propose a new ratchet/inverted-ratchet effect in the submicrometric range driven by magnetic fields and electrical currents respectively. ; The financial support of the Spanish MINECO MAT2014-53921-R, FIS2013-45469 and FIS2016-76058 (AEI) and the Aragonese DGA IMANAE34 and CAMRADSE69, all of them cofunded by Fondo Social Europeo and European Union FEDER funds, is acknowledged. A. H-R acknowledges the support from FCT of Portugal (Grant SFRH/BPD/90471/2012). ; Peer Reviewed