This work focuses on the fabrication of excellent magnetic structures for trapping breast cancer cells. Micromagnetic structures were patterned for trapping cancer cells by depositing 30 nm of permalloy on a silicon substrate. These structures were designed and fabricated using two fabrication techniques: electron beam lithography and laser direct writing. Two types of magnetic structures, rectangular wire and zig-zagged wire, were created on a silicon substrate. The length of each rectangular wire and each straight line of zig-zagged wire was 150 μm with a range of widths from 1 to 15 μm for rectangular and 1, 5, 10 and 15 μm for zigzag, respectively. The magnetic structures showed good responses to the applied magnetic field despite adding layers of silicon nitride and polyethylene glycol. The results showed that Si + Si3N4 + PEG exhibited the best adhesion of cells to the surface, followed by Si + Py + Si3N4 + PEG. concentration of 5-6 with permalloy indicates that this layer affected silicon nitride in the presence of Polyethylene glycolPEG.

1. Introduction
2. Materials and Experiments
    2.1. Structures design and fabrication
    2.2. Characterization
3. Results
4. Conclusions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
Acknowledgement
References
Author Information

• Alaa Alasadi(Karbala Technical Institute, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Karbala 56001, Iraq, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom) Corresponding author
• Ali Ghanim Gatea Al Rubaye(Basra Technical Institute, Southern Technical University, Basra 61030, Iraq)