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We explore universal behaviors of magnetic domain wall driven by the spin-transfer of an electrical current, in a ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)(As,P) thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. For a current direction transverse to domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-04 R. Diaz Pardo , N. Moisan , L. Albornoz , A. Lemaitre , J. Curiale , V. Jeudy

Disorder in ultra-thin magnetic films can significantly hinder domain wall motion. One of the main issues on the path towards efficient domain wall based devices remains the characterization of the pinning landscape at the nanoscale. In…

We study the current-driven domain wall (DW) motion in cylindrical nanowires using micromagnetic simulations by implementing the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with nonlocal spin-transfer torque in a finite difference micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Weiwei Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ryan A. Pepper , Congpu Mu , Yan Zhou , Hans Fangohr

The growing demand for storage, due to big data applications, cannot be met by hard disk drives. Domain wall (DW) memory devices such as racetrack memory offer an alternative route to achieve high capacity storage. In DW memory, control of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 H. Mohammed , S. Al Risi , T. L. Jin3 J. Kosel , S. N. Piramanayagam , R. Sbiaa

We use time-resolved measurement and modeling to study the spin-torque induced motion of a domain wall in perpendicular anisotropy magnets. In disc of diameters between 70 and 100 nm, the wall drifts across the disc with pronounced…

The domain wall motion along a helix-shaped nanowire is studied for the case of spin-current driving via Bazaliy-Zhang-Li mechanism. The analysis is based on collective variable approach. Two new effects are ascertained: (i) the curvature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei

In magnetic nanowires with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) magnetic domain walls (DW) are narrow and can move rapidly driven by current induced torques. This enables important applications like high-density memories for which the…

We theoretically study the equilibrium and dynamic properties of nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) and magnetic wires, in which an electric field controls the magnetic anisotropy through spin-orbit coupling. By performing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Pramey Upadhyaya , Ritika Dusad , Silas Hoffman , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Juan G. Alzate , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Kang L. Wang

We investigate theoretically the motion of chiral N\'eel domain walls in perpendicularly magnetized systems driven by in-plane strain gradients. We show that such strain drives domain walls efficiently towards increasing tensile…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Mouad Fattouhi , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Rocio Yanes , Victor Raposo , Eduardo Martinez , Luis Lopez-Diaz

Mechanically bent nickel nanowires show clear features in their room temperature magnetoresistance when a domain wall is pinned at the location of the bend. By varying the direction of an applied magnetic field, the wire can be prepared…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Silevitch , M. Tanase , C. L. Chien , D. H. Reich

We have studied the magnetic reversal of L-shaped nanostructures fabricated from (Ga,Mn)As. The strain relaxation due to the lithographic patterning results in each arm having a uniaxial magnetic anisotropy. Our analysis confirms that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-08-12 J. A. Haigh , M. Wang , A. W. Rushforth , E. Ahmad , K. W. Edmonds , R. P. Campion , C. T. Foxon , B. L. Gallagher

When magnetic skyrmions move under spin orbit torque in magnetic nanowires, they experience a skyrmion Hall effect, which pushes them towards the nanowire edge where they risk being annihilated; this puts an upper limit on how fast they can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Xiangjun Xing , Johan Åkerman , Yan Zhou

We observe magnetization dynamics induced by spin momentum transfer in the noise spectra of current perpendicular to the plane giant magnetoresistance spin valves. The dynamics are observable only for those combinations of current direction…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Covington , M. AlHajDarwish , Y. Ding , N. J. Gokemeijer , M. A. Seigler

We demonstrate movement of a head-to-head domain wall through a magnetic nanowire simply by passing an electrical current through the domain wall and without any external magnetic field applied. The effect depends on the sense and magnitude…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Nicolas Vernier , Dan A. Allwood , Del Atkinson , Michael D. Cooke , Russell P. Cowburn

A possibility is discussed of observing spin injection effect on the ferromagnet domain structure by means of resonant excitation of the domain wall oscillations by a spin-polarized ac injection current. The natural frequency of the domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Elliott , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

This review describes in detail the essential techniques used in microscopic theories on spintronics. We have investigated the domain wall dynamics induced by electric current based on the $s$-$d$ exchange model. The domain wall is treated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

Ultrafast dynamics of antiferromagnetic materials is an appealing feature for novel spintronic devices. Several experiments have shown that both, the static states and the dynamical behavior of the antiferromagnetic order, are strictly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Luis Sanchez-Tejerina , Vito Puliafito , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Mario Carpentieri , Giovanni Finocchio

It is theoretically demonstrated that a displacement of a pinned domain wall, typically of order of $\mu$m, can be driven by use of an ac current which is below threshold value. The point here is that finite motion around the pinning center…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gen Tatara , Eiji Saitoh , Masahiko Ichimura , Hiroshi Kohno

We present an analytic study of domain-wall statics and dynamics in ferromagnetic nanotubes with spin-orbit-induced Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Even at the level of statics, dramatic effects arise from the interplay of space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Arseni Goussev , J. M. Robbins , Valeriy Slastikov , Oleg A. Tretiakov

We investigated head-to-head domain walls in nanostrips of epitaxial $\mathrm{Fe}_4\mathrm{N}(001)$ thin films, displaying a fourfold magnetic anisotropy. Magnetic force microscopy and micromagnetic simulations show that the domain walls…