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Magnetic Skyrmion Field-Effect Transistors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-08-15 v1 Materials Science Applied Physics

Abstract

Magnetic skyrmions are of considerable interest for low-power memory and logic devices because of high speed at low current and high stability due to topological protection. We propose a skyrmion field-effect transistor based on a gate-controlled Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. A key working principle of the proposed skyrmion field-effect transistor is a large transverse motion of skyrmion, caused by an effective equilibrium damping-like spin-orbit torque due to spatially inhomogeneous Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. This large transverse motion can be categorized as the skyrmion Hall effect, but has been unrecognized previously. The propose device is capable of multi-bit operation and Boolean functions, and thus is expected to serve as a low-power logic device based on the magnetic solitons.

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@article{arxiv.1908.04931,
  title  = {Magnetic Skyrmion Field-Effect Transistors},
  author = {Ik-Sun Hong and Kyung-Jin Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.04931},
  year   = {2019}
}

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16 pages, 3 figures

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