**Author details**

Manuel Ramos1,2\*, John Nogan2 , Manuela Ortíz-Díaz1 , José L Enriquez-Carrejo1 , Claudia A Rodriguez-González1 , José Mireles-Jr-Garcia1 , Roberto Carlos Ambrosio-Lazáro4 , Carlos Ornelas3 , Abel Hurtado-Macias3 , Torben Boll5 , Delphine Chassaing<sup>5</sup> and Martin Heilmaier<sup>5</sup>

1 Departamento de Física y Matemáticas, Instituto de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, CP, Mexico

2 Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Albuquerque, NM, USA

3 Laboratorio Nacional de Nanotecnología, Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados S.C., Chihuahua, CP, México

4 Facultad de Ciencias de la Electrónica, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Ciudad de Puebla, Estado de Puebla, CP, México

5 Institut für Angewandte Materialien-Werkstoffkunde (IAM-WK), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

\*Address all correspondence to: manuel.ramos@uacj.mx

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