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Magnetic domain-walls (DWs) with a preferred chirality exhibit very efficient current-driven motion. Since structural inversion asymmetry (SIA) is required for their stability, the observation of chiral domain walls in highly symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Jeroen H. Franken , Mark Herps , Henk J. M. Swagten , Bert Koopmans

Understanding and manipulating nanoscale domain wall (DW) dynamics is a central topic in magnetism and spintronics for its promising applications in logic and memory devices. In most magnetic systems, inertia affects only transient DW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 K. Y. Jing , X. R. Wang , H. Y. Yuan

Chiral magnetic materials provide a number of challenging issues such as the highly efficient domain wall (DW) and skyrmion motions driven by electric current, as of the operation principles of emerging spintronic devices. The DWs in the…

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

Fast domain wall motion in systems with perpendicular magnetization is necessary for many novel applications such as the racetrack memory, domain wall logic devices and artificial synapses. The domain wall speed has been greatly improved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Jingwei Long , Yumeng Yang , Shuyuan Shi , Xuanyao Fong , Gengchiau Liang , Zhifeng Zhu

In most ferromagnets the magnetization rotates from one domain to the next with no preferred handedness. However, broken inversion symmetry can lift the chiral degeneracy, leading to topologically-rich spin textures such as spin-spirals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-29 Satoru Emori , Uwe Bauer , Sung-Min Ahn , Eduardo Martinez , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Spin dynamics of field-driven domain walls (DWs) guided by Permalloy nanowires are studied by high-speed magneto-optic polarimetry and numerical simulations. DW velocities and spin configurations are determined as functions of longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 Jusang Yang , Geoffrey S. D. Beach , Carl Knutson , James L. Erskine

Efficient electrical manipulation of domain walls is key to developing magnetic devices with fast switching capabilities and low energy consumption. Here we demonstrate Bloch-type domain wall velocities exceeding 1 km s$^{-1}$ in the…

Domain wall (DW) motion is a crucial process involved in magnetization reversal, be it under magnetic field or spin-polarized current stimulus. In most cases DW speed does not exceed $\approx$100m/s and collapses above a given threshold of…

Most of the existing researches on the dynamics of a domain wall (DW) have focused on the effect of DC biases, where the induced velocity is determined by the bias strength. Here we show that AC biases such as a field or a current are also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Duck-Ho Kim , Dong-Hyun Kim , Dae-Yun Kim , Sug-Bong Choe , Teruo Ono , Kyung-Jin Lee , Se Kwon Kim

Chiral domain walls of Neel type emerge in heterostructures that include heavy metal (HM) and ferromagnetic metal (FM) layers owing to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction at the HM/FM interface. In developing storage class memories…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Rafael P. del Real , Victor Raposo , Eduardo Martinez , Masamitsu Hayashi

Racetrack memory based on magnetic domain walls (DWs) motion exhibits advantages of small volume and high reading speed. When compared to current-induced DW motion, voltage-induced DW motion exhibits lower dissipation. On the other hand,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Fa Chen , Zhendong Zhang , Wei Luo , Xiaofei Yang , Long You , Yue Zhang

We have studied a series of Pt/Co/M epitaxial trilayers, in which Co is sandwiched between Pt and a non magnetic layer M (Pt, Ir, Cu, Al). Using polar magneto-optical Kerr microscopy, we show that the field- induced domain wall speeds are…

Current-driven domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic wires with asymmetric notches was investigated by means of magnetic force microscopy. It was found that the critical current density necessary for the current-driven DW motion depended on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Himeno , S. Kasai , T. Ono

A domain wall (DW) in a ferromagnetic nanowire is composed of elementary topological bulk and edge defects with integer and fractional winding numbers, respectively, whose relative spatial arrangement determines the chirality of the DW.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Aakash Pushp , Timothy Phung , Charles Rettner , Brian P. Hughes , See-Hun Yang , Luc Thomas , Stuart S. P. Parkin

Memory and logic devices that encode information in magnetic domains rely on the controlled injection of domain walls to reach their full potential. In this work, we exploit the chiral coupling induced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 T. Phuong Dao , Marvin Müller , Zhaochu Luo , Manuel Baumgartner , Aleš Hrabec , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella

The current-driven motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) is the working principle of magnetic racetrack memories. In this type of spintronic technology, high current densities are used to propel DW motion in magnetic nanowires, causing…

We study current-induced dynamics of spin textures in thin magnetic nanowires. We derive effective equations of motion describing the dynamics of the domain-wall soft modes associated with topological defects. Because the magnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 O. A. Tretiakov , Ar. Abanov

We derive the equations of motion of a Domain Wall in a thin-film magnet coupled to the surface states of a Topological Insulator in the presence of of both an electric field along the Domain Wall and a magnetic field perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Yago Ferreiros , Alberto Cortijo

We study deterministic magnetic reversal of a perpendicularly magnetized Co layer in a Co/MgO/Ta nano-square driven by spin Hall torque from an in-plane current flowing in an underlying Pt layer. The rate-limiting step of the switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 O. J. Lee , L. Q. Liu , C. F. Pai , H. W. Tseng , Y. Li , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman
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