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The creation and manipulation of magnetic skyrmions in magnetic bilayer heterostructures via spin-orbit torque have been intensively studied in spintronics because of their potential application as information carriers in next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yuto Uwabo , Masahito Mochizuki

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with a whirling configuration. Their topological properties, nanometer size and the fact that they can be moved by small current densities have opened a new paradigm for the manipulation of…

Localized particle-like spin textures have been found to exhibit emergent electromagnetic properties, which hold promise for the development of intriguing spintronic devices. Among these textures, magnetic bubbles represent localized spin…

The problem of bubble domain generation is revisited from a new perspective that was opened by recent findings in the field of physics of magnetic skyrmions. The single bubble domain can be generated under the tip electrode touching the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-25 D. P. Kulikova , A. P. Pyatakov , E. P. Nikolaeva , A. S. Sergeev , T. B. Kosykh , Z. A. Pyatakova , A. V. Nikolaev , A. K. Zvezdin

Recent experiments have shown that magnetic skyrmion bubbles can be generated and injected at room temperature in thin films [W. Jiang et al, Science vol. 349, 283 (2015)]. Here, we demonstrate, using micromagnetic modeling, that such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Olle Heinonen , Wanjun Jiang , Hamoud Somaily , Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis , Axel Hoffmann

In the present work, using micromagnetic simulation, we show that the magnetic coupling effect plays a very important role in the process of creation of skyrmions in a coupled system of spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNO). First, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 H. Vigo-Cotrina , A. P. Guimarães

Using a three-dimensional focused-ion beam lithography process we have fabricated nanopillar devices which show spin transfer torque switching at zero external magnetic fields. Under a small in-plane external bias field, a field-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Wu , A. Aziz , D. Morecroft , M. G. Blamire , M. C. Hickey , M. Ali , G. Burnell , B. J. Hickey

A spin-polarized current in a nanocontact to a magnetic film can create collective magnetic oscillations by compensating the magnetic damping. In particular, in materials with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, droplet solitons have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Nahuel Statuto , Joan Manel Hernàndez , Andrew D. Kent , Ferran Macià

We report deterministic operations on single dipolar skyrmions confined in nanostructured cuboids using in-plane currents. We achieve highly reversible writing and deleting of skyrmions in the simple cuboid without any artificial defects or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jin Tang , Jialiang Jiang , Yaodong Wu , Lingyao Kong , Yihao Wang , Junbo Li , Y. Soh , Yimin Xiong , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

We report the observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in Pt/Co/Os/Pt thin-film heterostructures and their response to electric currents. The magnetic properties are extremely sensitive to inserting thin Os layers between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 R. Tolley , S. A. Montoya , E. E. Fullerton

We study, both experimentally and by numerical modeling, the magnetic dynamics that can be excited in a magnetic thin-film nanopillar device using the spin torque from a spatially localized current injected via a 10s-of-nm-diameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Finocchio , O. Ozatay , L. Torres , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph , B. Azzerboni

Spin transfer torque (STT) affords magnetic nanodevices the potential to act as memory, computing, and microwave elements operating at ultra-low currents and at a low energy cost. Spin transfer torque is not only effective in manipulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Y. Zhou , E. Iacocca , A. Awad , R. K. Dumas , F. C. Zhang , H. B. Braun , J. Åkerman

Using micromagnetic simulation, we investigate the self-sustained oscillation of magnetic skyrmion in a ferromagnetic circular nanodot, driven by spin-torque which is generated from a reference layer of a circular nanopillar device. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Debasis Das , Bhaskaran Muralidharan , Ashwin Tulapurkar

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected states that are very promising for the design of the next generation of ultralow-power electronic devices. In this letter, we propose a magnetic tunnel junction based spin-transfer torque diode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Finocchio , M. Ricci , R. Tomasello , A. Giordano , M. Lanuzza , V. Puliafito , P. Burrascano , B. Azzerboni , M. Carpentieri

The magnetic skyrmion is a nanoscale topological object characterized by the winding of the magnetic moments, appearing in magnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry. Because of its low current threshold for driving, the skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Ryo Iguchi , Shinya Kasai , Kazushige Koshikawa , Norimichi Chinone , Shinsuke Suzuki , Ken-ichi Uchida

The magnetization orientation of a nanoscale ferromagnet can be manipulated using an electric current via the spin transfer effect. Time domain measurements of nanopillar devices at low temperatures have directly shown that magnetization…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-27 Samir Garzon , Longfei Ye , Richard A. Webb , Thomas M. Crawford , Mark Covington , Shehzaad Kaka

Topological magnetic solitons have emerged as promising candidates for information carriers in spintronic devices, thanks to their fascinating electromagnetic properties. For fundamental device applications, the ability to electrically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Lingyao Kong , Wei Liu , Huanhuan Zhang , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du , Jin Tang

From a theoretical perspective, we demonstrate that nanometric magnetic skyrmions are created by application of a circularly polarized microwave magnetic field to a thin-plate Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya ferromagnet with fabricated rectangular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Masayuki Miyake , Masahito Mochizuki

We report dynamics of skyrmion bubbles driven by spin-transfer torque in achiral ferromagnetic nanostripes using micromagnetic simulations. In a three-dimensional uniaxial ferromagnet with a quality factor that is smaller than 1, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-10 Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Jin Tang

Magnetic skyrmions are promising for next-generation information storage and processing owing to their potential advantages in data storage density, robustness, and energy efficiency. The magnetic multilayers consisting of Pt, Co, and a…