Millimeter-sized magnetic domains in perpendicularly magnetized ferrimagnetic Mn4N thin films grown on SrTiO3

Toshiki Gushi; Laurent Vila; Olivier Fruchart; Alain Marty; Stefania Pizzini; Jan Vogel; Fumiya Takata; Akihito Anzai; Kaoru Toko; Takashi Suemasu; Jean-Philippe Attané

doi:10.7567/JJAP.57.120310

Millimeter-sized magnetic domains in perpendicularly magnetized ferrimagnetic Mn4N thin films grown on SrTiO3

Materials Science 2018-11-14 v1

Authors: Toshiki Gushi , Laurent Vila , Olivier Fruchart , Alain Marty , Stefania Pizzini , Jan Vogel , Fumiya Takata , Akihito Anzai , Kaoru Toko , Takashi Suemasu , Jean-Philippe Attané

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Abstract

The use of epitaxial layers for domain wall-based spintronic applications is often hampered by the presence of pinning sites. Here, we show that when depositing Mn4N(10 nm) epitaxial films, the replacement of MgO(001) by SrTiO3(001) substrates allows minimizing the misfit, and to obtain an improved crystalline quality, a sharper switching, a full remanence, a high anisotropy and remarkable millimeter-sized magnetic domains, with straight and smooth domain walls. In a context of rising interest for current-induced domain wall motion in rare

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magnetic domains ferrimagnetic Mn4N epitaxial thin films SrTiO3 substrate perpendicular magnetization domain walls

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@article{arxiv.1810.13184,
  title  = {Millimeter-sized magnetic domains in perpendicularly magnetized ferrimagnetic Mn4N thin films grown on SrTiO3},
  author = {Toshiki Gushi and Laurent Vila and Olivier Fruchart and Alain Marty and Stefania Pizzini and Jan Vogel and Fumiya Takata and Akihito Anzai and Kaoru Toko and Takashi Suemasu and Jean-Philippe Attané},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.13184},
  year   = {2018}
}

Millimeter-sized magnetic domains in perpendicularly magnetized ferrimagnetic Mn4N thin films grown on SrTiO3

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