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The control of domain walls or spin textures is crucial for spintronic applications of antiferromagnets. Despite many efforts, it has been challenging to directly visualize antiferromagnetic domains or domain walls with nanoscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-06 Paul M. Sass , Wenbo Ge , Jiaqiang Yan , D. Obeysekera , J. J Yang , Weida Wu

The recent experimental demonstration of spin-polarized supercurrents offer a venue for establishment of a superconducting analogue to conventional spintronics. Whereas domain wall motion in purely magnetic structures is a well-studied…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Jacob Linder , Klaus Halterman

A promising mechanism for achieving colossal dielectric constants is to use insulating internal barrier layers, which typically form during synthesis and then remain in the material. It has recently been shown that insulating domain walls…

The recently proposed dynamical multiferroic effect describes the generation of magnetization from temporally varying electric polarization. Here, we show that the effect can lead to a magnetic field at moving ferroelectric domain walls,…

Antiferromagnetic (AF) domain walls have recently attracted revived attention, not only in the emerging field of AF spintronics, but also more specifically for offering fast domain wall velocities and dynamic excitations up to the terahertz…

The switching dynamics of ferroelectric materials is a crucial intrinsic property which directly affects the operation and performance of ferroelectric devices. In conventional ferroelectric materials, the typical ferroelectric switching…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-02 Ri He , Hua Wang , Fucai Liu , Shi Liu , Houfang Liu , Zhicheng Zhong

Ultrafast optical control of magnetic textures offers new opportunities for energy-efficient, high-speed spintronic devices. While uniform magnetization reversal via all-optical switching is well established, the formation dynamics of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Yuzhu Fan , Gaolong Cao , Junlin Wang , Sheng Jiang , Jing Wu , Johan Åkerman , Jonas Weissenrieder

Despite multiple efforts, there exist many unsolved fundamental problems related with detection and analysis of internal polarization structure and related phase transitions in ferroelectric domain walls. Their solution can be very…

Ferroelectric domain walls exhibit a range of interesting electrical properties and are now widely recognized as functional two-dimensional systems for the development of next-generation nanoelectronics. A major achievement in the field was…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-17 Jan Schultheiß , Tadej Rojac , Dennis Meier

Ferroelectrics usually adopt a multi-domain state with domain walls separating domains with polarization axes oriented differently. It has long been recognized that domain walls can dramatically impact the properties of ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-15 Shi Liu , R. E. Cohen

We present in-situ transmission electron microscopy observations of domain wall motion in thin freestanding potassium niobate single-crystals. We observe that not all domains of a given polarization orientation are equally switchable in…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Krishnan , M. M. J. Treacy , M. E. Bisher , P. Chandra , P. B. Littlewood

We present a general approach for studying the dynamics of domain walls in biaxial ferromagnetic stripes with functionally graded Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). By engineering the spatial profile of the DMI parameter we propose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-24 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Jeroen van den Brink , Avadh Saxena

Microscopic theory of domain wall dynamics under electric current is reviewed. Domain wall is treated as rigid and planar. The spin-transfer torque and forces on the wall are derived based on the $s$-$d$ exchange interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

The thermally-driven formation and evolution of vertex domains is studied for square artificial spin ice. A self consistent mean field theory is used to show how domains of ground state ordering form spontaneously, and how these evolve in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-19 Zoe Budrikis , K. L. Livesey , J. P. Morgan , J. Akerman , A. Stein , S. Langridge , C. H. Marrows , R. L. Stamps

Domain walls in antiferromagnets under a spin-polarized current present dynamical behavior that is not observed in ferromagnets, and it is tunable by the current polarization. Precessional dynamics is obtained for perpendicular spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-02 George Theodorou , Stavros Komineas

Electric field effects in ferromagnetic/oxide dielectric structures provide a new route to control domain wall (DW) dynamics with low power dissipation. However, electric field effects on DW velocities have only been observed so far in the…

Ferroelectric domain walls are quasi-2D systems that show great promise for the development of non-volatile memory, memristor technology and electronic components with ultra-small feature size. Electric fields, for example, can change the…

Ultra-dense domain walls are increasingly important for many devices but their microscopic properties are so far not fully understood. Here we use molecular dynamic simulations to study the domain wall stability in the prototypical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-06 Arne J. Klomp , Ruben Khachaturyan , Theophilus Wallis , Anna Grünebohm , Karsten Albe

We present the results of experimental investigations of magnetic switching and magnetotransport in a new generation of magnetic devices containing artificially patterned domains. Our devices are realised by locally reducing the coercive…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-06 A. Aziz , S. J. Bending , H. Robert , S. Crampin , P. J. Heard , C. H. Marrows

Composite multiferroics, heterostructures of ferromagnetic (FM) and ferroelectric (FE) materials, are characterized by a remarkable magnetoelectric effect at the interface. Previous work has supported the ferromagnetic structure with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 Zidong Wang , Malcolm J. Grimson