The top row shows the normalized energy calculated using COMSOL at a distance of 1 μm from the substrate over a single stripe surface for (μ0Happ,x [mT], μ0Happ,z [mT]) = (0, 2.5), (5, 2.5), (5, −2.5), (0, −2.5) and (0, 2.5) in parts (a)–(e), respectively. The bottom row shows the corresponding experimental images (enhanced online) .