Hi Betty Titus Mathew, I did such work using silica beads. You can refer to this article: Article A bead-based immunofluorescence-assay on a microfluidic diel...
Here in Portugal we have INESC-MN and INL groups that have a great background in magnetic sensing. You can try to talk with them. I leave you with some references.
Article Magnetoresistive chip cytometer
Article Custom Magnet Design for a Multi-Channel Magnetic Microcytometer
Article Toward a magnetoresistive chip cytometer: Integrated detecti...