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Measurements of magnetic noise emanating from ferromagnets due to domain motion were first carried out nearly 100 years ago and have underpinned much science and technology. Antiferromagnets, which carry no net external magnetic dipole…

The magnetic microstructure and domain wall distribution of antiferromagnetic $\alpha$-Fe$_2$O$_3$ epitaxial layers is determined by statistical image analyses. Using dichroic spectro-microscopy images, we demonstrate that the domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-14 Odile Bezencenet , Daniel Bonamy , Rachid Belkhou , Philippe Ohresser , Antoine Barbier

We have a choice of methods for examining domains at the surface of a ferromagnet that depend on probing the stray field distribution, but these methods do not work in antiferromagnets or compensated ferrimagnets, which produce no stray…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-14 K. E. Siewierska , N. Teichert , R. Schäfer , J. M. D. Coey

Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls by an external magnetic field or spin-polarized current. Achieving the same degree of magnetic controllability using an electric field has…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-14 Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen , Kévin J. A. Franke , Sebastiaan van Dijken

The magnetic order in antiferromagnetic (AF) materials is hard to control with external magnetic fields. However, recent advances in detecting and manipulating AF order electrically have opened up new prospects for these materials in basic…

Electrical and optical pulsing allow for manipulating the order parameter and magnetoresistance of antiferromagnets, opening novel prospects for digital and analog data storage in spintronic devices. Recent experiments in CuMnAs have…

Harnessing the unique properties of non-collinear antiferromagnets (AFMs) will be essential for exploiting the full potential of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Indeed, many of the effects enabling ferromagnetic spintronic devices have a…

Antiferromagnets offer remarkable promise for future spintronics devices, where antiferromagnetic order is exploited to encode information. The control and understanding of antiferromagnetic domain walls (DWs) - the interfaces between…

Imaging of magnetic domains with a photoelectron emission microscope operated with photon energies in the threshold regime often suffers from low contrast. In this work we show by symmetry considerations, photoemission calculations, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 F. O. Schumann , M. Paleschke , J. Henk , W. Widdra , C. -T. Chiang

Efficient manipulation of antiferromagnetic (AF) domains and domain walls has opened up new avenues of research towards ultrafast, high-density spintronic devices. AF domain structures are known to be sensitive to magnetoelastic effects,…

We demonstrate that the highly sensitive phase-contrast properties of Bragg coherent diffraction measurements combined with the translational diversity of ptychography can provide a Bragg "dark field" imaging method capable of revealing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-19 Nicolas Burdet , Xiaowen Shi , Jesse N. Clark , Xiaojing Huang , Ross Harder , I. K. Robinson

Antiferromagnetic materials hold potential for use in spintronic devices with fast operation frequencies and field robustness. Despite the rapid progress in proof-of-principle functionality in recent years, there has been a notable lack of…

We have engineered an antiferromagnetic domain wall by utilizing a magnetic frustration effect of a thin iron cap layer deposited on a chromium film. Through lithography and wet etching we selectively remove areas of the Fe cap layer to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 J. M. Logan , H. C. Kim , D. Rosenmann , Z. Cai , R. Divan , Oleg G. Shpyrko , E. D. Isaacs

We investigate magnetic domain walls in a single fcc Mn layer on Re(0001) employing spin-polarized STM, atom manipulation, and spin dynamics simulations. The low symmetry of the row-wise antiferromagnetic (1Q) state leads to a new type of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Jonas Spethmann , Martin Grünebohm , Roland Wiesendanger , Kirsten von Bergmann , André Kubetzka

Unconventional magnetic materials including non-collinear antiferromagnets, p-wave magnets and altermagnets, are an emerging frontier for quantum spintronics and hybrid quantum devices. Critical to the application of these materials is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-09 Freya Johnson , Jan Zemen , Helena Knowles , Lesley F. Cohen

We theoretically examine a cross effect of magnetic field and charge current on antiferromagnetic domain wall dynamics. Since antiferromagnetic materials are largely insensitive to external magnetic fields in general, charge current has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Yuta Yamane , Olena Gomonay , Hristo Velkov , Jairo Sinova

We report direct imaging of boundary magnetization associated with antiferromagnetic domains in magnetoelectric epitaxial Cr2O3 thin films using diamond nitrogen vacancy microscopy. We found a correlation between magnetic domain size and…

We demonstrate how the antiferromagnetic order in heterostructures of NiO/Pt thin films can be modified by optical pulses. We irradiate our samples with laser light and identify an optically induced creation of antiferromagnetic domains by…

When electric and magnetic fields are applied together on a magnetoelectric antiferromagnet, the domain state is subject to reversal. Although the initial and final conditions are saturated single-domain states, the process of reversal may…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Arun Parthasarathy , Shaloo Rakheja

The antiferromagnetic domain wall dynamics is currently a hot topic in mesoscopic magnetic systems. In this work, it is found that, based on the Thiele approach, the motion of an antiferromagnetic domain wall is described by the Duffing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Guoping Zhao , Yan Zhou