@article{Hellwig_2010, doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/12/6/065019}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/12/6/065019}, year = 2010, month = {jun}, publisher = {{IOP} Publishing}, volume = {12}, number = {6}, pages = {065019}, author = {M Hellwig and A Bautista-Salvador and K Singer and G Werth and F Schmidt-Kaler}, title = {Fabrication of a planar micro Penning trap and numerical investigations of versatile ion positioning protocols}, journal = {New Journal of Physics}, abstract = {We describe a versatile planar Penning trap structure, which allows one to dynamically modify the trapping configuration almost arbitrarily. The trap consists of 37 hexagonal electrodes, each with a circumcircle diameter of 300 μm, fabricated in a gold-on-sapphire lithographic technique. Every hexagon can be addressed individually, thus shaping the electric potential. The fabrication of such a device with clean room methods is demonstrated. We illustrate the variability of the device by a detailed numerical simulation of a lateral and a vertical transport and simulate trapping in racetrack and artificial crystal configurations. The trap may be used for ions or electrons, as a versatile container for quantum optics and quantum information experiments.} }