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The design of spin-transport based devices such as magnon transistors or spin valves will require multilayer systems composed of different magnetic materials with different physical properties. Such layered structures can show various…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-23 Verena Brehm , Martin Evers , Ulrike Ritzmann , Ulrich Nowak

We report on the occurrence of exchange bias on laser-ablated granular thin films composed of Co nanoparticles embedded in amorphous zirconia matrix. The deposition method allows controlling the degree of oxidation of the Co particles by…

In the investigations of antiferromagnetic (AF)/ ferromagnetic (FM) bilayer samples, often distinct experimental techniques yield different values for the measured exchange anisotropy field (HE). Using a simple microscopic model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. R. L. de Almeida , J. R. Steiner , S. M. Rezende

In a ferromagnet--normal-metal--ferromagnet trilayer, a current flowing perpendicularly to the layers creates a torque on the magnetic moments of the ferromagnets. When one of the contacts is superconducting, the torque not only favors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xavier Waintal , Piet W. Brouwer

A vector spin model is used to show how frustrations within a multisublattice antiferromagnet such as FeMn can lead to four-fold magnetic anisotropies acting on an exchange coupled ferromagnetic film. Possibilities for the existence of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Mewes , B. Hillebrands , R. L. Stamps

Models of exchange-bias in thin films have been able to describe various aspects of this technologically relevant effect. Through appropriate choices of free parameters the modelled hysteresis loops adequately match experiment, and typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Andrea Benassi , Miguel A. Marioni , Daniele Passerone , Hans J. Hug

We study the magnetic and transport properties of all-manganite heterostructures consisting of ferromagnetic metallic electrodes separated by an antiferromagnetic barrier. We find that the magnetic ordering in the barrier is influenced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-04-02 J. Salafranca , M. J. Calderon , L. Brey

Monte Carlo simulations have been used to study magnetic ordering in coupled anisotropic ferro/antiferromagnetic (FM/AFM) films of classical Heisenberg spins. We consider films with flat interfaces that are fully uncompensated as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shan-Ho Tsai , D. P. Landau , Thomas C. Schulthess

Current induced magnetization dynamics in asymmetric Cu/Co/Cu single magnetic layer nanopillars has been studied experimentally at room temperature and in low magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the thin film plane. In sub-100 nm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Barbaros Oezyilmaz , Andrew D. Kent

Magnetization reversal of soft ferromagnetic Fe layer, coupled to [Co/Pt]ML multilayer [ML] with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), has been studied in-situ with an aim to understand the origin of exchange bias (EB) in orthogonal…

We demonstrate the exchange coupling of a ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga1-xMnxAs) with an overgrown antiferromagnet (MnO). Unlike most conventional exchange biased systems, the blocking temperature of the antiferromagnet (T_B = 48 +- 2 K)…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 K. F. Eid , M. B. Stone , K. C. Ku , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth , T. C. Shih , C. J. Palmstrom

Spintronics in ferromagnetic metals is built on a complementary set of phenomena in which magnetic configurations influence transport coefficients and transport currents alter magnetic configurations. In this Letter we propose that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Nunez , R. A. Duine , A. H. MacDonald

Exchange bias is a unidirectional magnetic anisotropy that often arise from interfacial interaction of a ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic layers. In this article, we show that a metallic layer with spin-orbit coupling can induces an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Adam B. Cahaya , Ansell Alvarez Anderson , Anugrah Azhar , Muhammad Aziz Majidi

Antiferromagnets (AFs) attract much attention due to potential applications in spintronics. Both the electric current and the electric field are considered as tools suitable to control properties and the N\'eel vector direction of AFs.…

Here, we present a review of the phenomenology of the spontaneous exchange bias effect, a phenomenon in which some materials exhibit unidirectional magnetic anisotropy even without the assistance of an external magnetic field applied during…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-20 L. Bufaiçal , E. M. Bittar

In the framework of phenomenological model we consider dynamics of a compensated collinear antiferromagnet (AFM) in the presence of spin-polarised current. The model is based on the assumption that AFM spins are localised and spin torque is…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-16 H. Gomonay , V. Loktev

Magnetic nano-objects possess great potential for more efficient data processing, storage and neuromorphic type of applications. Using high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy synthetic antiferromagnets in the form of multilayer-based…

Multiferroics, where two or more ferroic order parameters coexist, is one of the hottest fields in condensed matter physics and materials science[1-9]. However, the coexistence of magnetism and conventional ferroelectricity is physically…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-11 Xiangang Wan , Hang-Chen Ding , Sergey Y. Savrasov , Chun-Gang Duan

The magnetic exchange bias between epitaxial thin films of the multiferroic (antiferromagnetic and ferroelectric) hexagonal YMnO3 oxide and a soft ferromagnetic (FM) layer is used to couple the magnetic response of the ferromagnetic layer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Laukhin , V. Skumryev , X. Marti , D. Hrabovsky , F. Sanchez , M. V. Garcia-Cuenca , C. Ferrater , M. Varela , U. Luders , J. F. Bobo , J. Fontcuberta

The exchange interaction determines the ferromagnetic (FM) or antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering of atomic spins. When ferromagnets and antiferromagnets are coupled together, they often exhibit the exchange bias effect, a unidirectional…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-16 Sarah Jenkins , Wei Jia Fan , Roxana Gaina , Roy W Chantrell , Timothy Klemmer , Richard F L Evans