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Ferroelectric domain nucleation and growth in multiferroic BiFeO3 films is observed directly by applying a local electric field with a conductive tip inside a scanning transmission electron microscope. The nucleation and growth of a…

When subjected to electro-mechanical loading, ferroelectrics see their polarization evolve through the nucleation and evolution of domains. Existing mesoscale phase-field models for ferroelectrics are typically based on a gradient-descent…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-10 Laurent Guin , Dennis Kochmann

Domain wall dynamics in a magnetoelectric antiferromagnet is analyzed, and its implications for magnetoelectric memory applications are discussed. Cr$_2$O$_3$ is used in the estimates of the materials parameters. It is found that the domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-05 K. D. Belashchenko , O. Tchernyshyov , Alexey A. Kovalev , O. A. Tretiakov

Since the discovery of polar topological textures, achieving efficient control and manipulation of them has emerged as a significant challenge for their integration into nanoelectronic devices. In this study, we use second principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-01 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Louis Bastogne , He Xu , Philippe Ghosez

The sensitivity of ferroelectric domain walls to external stimuli makes them functional entities in nanoelectronic devices. Specifically, optically driven domain reconfiguration with in-plane polarization is advantageous and thus highly…

In elastically coupled multiferroic heterostructures that exhibit full domain correlations between ferroelectric and ferromagnetic sub-systems, magnetic domain walls are firmly pinned on top of ferroelectric domain boundaries. In this work…

Manipulation of magnetic domain walls via a helicity-independent laser pulse has recently been experimentally demonstrated and various physical mechanisms leading to domain wall dynamics have been discussed. Spin-dependent superdiffusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Pavel Baláž , Karel Carva , Ulrike Ritzmann , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

We discover that the way spin-waves exert magnetic torques in multiferroic materials can cause not only domain wall motion, but also magnetization dynamics for homogeneous magnetization textures. Interestingly, the domain wall motion can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

For over ten years, arrays of interacting single-domain nanomagnets, referred to as artificial spin ices, have been engineered with the aim to study frustration in model spin systems. Here, we use Fresnel imaging to study the reversal…

Simultaneous imaging of the piezoresponse phase, amplitude and bare surface topography of displacive ferroelectric thin films by scanning probe microscopy directly shows the nature of domain wall pinning and its relation to morphological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-05 S. Bhattacharya , M. J. Higgins

Coating two nearby bodies with thin ferromagnetic films one obtains, below the Curie temperature, two interacting sets of magnetic domains. The dynamical properties of the bodies in presence of this domain interaction have never been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Andrea Benassi

The spin dynamics of all ferromagnetic materials are governed by two types of collective excitations: spin waves and domain walls. The fundamental processes underlying these collective modes, such as exchange interactions and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 A. Spinelli , B. Bryant , F. Delgado , J. Fernández-Rossier , A. F. Otte

Micromagnetic instabilities and non-uniform magnetization states play a significant role in spin transfer induced switching of nanometer scale magnetic elements. Here we model domain wall mediated switching dynamics in perpendicularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Nahuel Statuto , Jamileh Beik Mohammadi , Andrew D. Kent

This article presents theoretical results for the dynamic response of periodically surface-modulated ferromagnetic thin films. For such system, the role of the periodic dipolar field induced by the modulation is addressed by using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 R. A. Gallardo , M. Langer , A. Roldán-Molina , T. Schneider , K. Lenz , J. Lindner , P. Landeros

We revisit the description of ferromagnetic domain wall dynamics through an extended one-dimensional model by allowing flexural distortions of the wall during its motion. This is taken into account by allowing the domain wall center and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rémy Soucaille , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Joo-Von Kim , Thibaut Devolder , Jean-Paul Adam

Wurtzite ferroelectrics possess transformative potential for next-generation microelectronics. A comprehensive understanding of their ferroelectric properties and domain energetics is crucial for tailoring their ferroelectric…

The current-driven domain wall motion along two exchange-coupled ferromagnetic layers with perpendicular anisotropy is studied by means of micromagnetic simulations and compared to the conventional case of a single ferromagnetic layer. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Oscar Alejos , Victor Raposo , Luis Sanchez-Tejerina , Riccardo Tomasello , Giovanni Finocchio , Eduardo Martinez

The behavior of antiferromagnetic domain wall (ADW) against the background of a periodic ferroelectric domain structure has been investigated. It has been shown that the structure and the energy of ADW change due to the interaction with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-12 Z. V. Gareeva , A. K. Zvezdin

The magnetic textures of Weyl semimetals are embedded into their topological structure and interact dynamically with it. Here, we examine electric field-induced structural phase transitions in domain walls mediated by the spin transfer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-20 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari , Dimitrie Culcer

Antiferromagnets have a number of favourable properties as active elements in spintronic devices, including ultra-fast dynamics, zero stray fields and insensitivity to external magnetic fields . Tetragonal CuMnAs is a testbed system in…