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The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is important for chiral domain walls (DWs) and for stabilizing magnetic skyrmions. We study the effects of introducing increasing thicknesses of Ir, from zero to 2 nm, into a Pt/Co/Ta…

Recent development of the magnetic material engineering led to achievement of the systems with a high interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). As a result, the formation of non-collinear magnetic soliton states or nonreciprocal…

The most powerful magnets for high temperature applications are Sm-Co-based alloys with a microstructure that combines magnetically soft and hard regions. The microstructure consists of a dense domain-wall-pinning network that endows the…

We evaluate the micromagnetic energy of a domain wall contained in a thin, horn-shaped nanostructure and propose a method to extract the strength of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction based on the equilibrium position of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-16 Thomas Wong , Vincent Sokalski

Recent studies have shown that material structures, which lack structural inversion symmetry and have high spin-orbit coupling can exhibit chiral magnetic textures and skyrmions which could be a key component for next generation storage…

We characterize asymmetric growth of magnetic bubble domains in perpendicularly magnetized Co/Ni multi-layers grown on Pt$_x$Ir$_{1-x}$ seedlayers by application of perpendicular and in-plane magnetic fields. Using a refined model of domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Derek Lau , James Price Pellegren , Hans Nembach , Justin Shaw , Vincent Sokalski

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

Magnetic multilayers are a rich class of materials systems with numerous highly tunable physical parameters that determine both their magnetic and electronic properties. Here we present a comprehensive experimental study of a novel system,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-02 Martin Lonsky , Myoung-Woo Yoo , Yi-Siou Huang , Jiangchao Qian , Jian-Min Zuo , Axel Hoffmann

We have studied the interaction between magnetism and superconductivity in a pseudo-spin-valve structure consisting of a Co/Cu/Py/Nb layer sequence. We are able to control the magnetization reversal process and monitor it by means of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-06 A. K. Suszka , F. S. Bergeret , A. Berger

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in magnetic systems stabilizes spin textures with preferred chirality, applicable to next-generation memory and computing architectures. In perpendicularly magnetized heavy-metal/ferromagnet…

We explore the magnetic-field-driven motion of domain walls with different chiralities in thin ferromagnetic films made of Pt/Co/Pt, Au/Co/Pt, and Pt/Co/Au. From the analysis of domain wall dynamics, we extract parameters characterizing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 P. Géhanne , S. Rohart , A. Thiaville , V. Jeudy

We present an analytical theory to describe three-dimensional magnetic textures in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic multilayers that arise in the presence of magnetostatic interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-06 Ivan Lemesh , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Interface physics in oxide heterostructures is pivotal in material's science. Domain walls (DWs) in ferroic systems are examples of naturally occurring interfaces, where order parameter of neighboring domains is modified and emerging…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-08 Josep Fontcuberta , Vassil Skumryev , Vladimir Laukhin , Xavier Granados , Ekhard K. H. Salje

We report experimental and theoretical studies of magnetic domain walls in an in-plane magnetized (Ga,Mn)As dilute moment ferromagnetic semiconductor. Our high-resolution electron holography technique provides direct images of domain wall…

Topological defects embedded in or combined with domain walls have been proposed in various systems, some of which are referred to as domain wall skyrmions or domain wall bimerons. However, the experimental observation of such topological…

Manipulation of magnetic domain walls can be used to improve the capabilities of the next generation of memory and sensing devices. Materials of recent interest for such devices include heterostructures of ultrathin ferromagnets sandwiched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 S. Ali Nasseri , Eduardo Martinez , Gianfranco Durin

Using density functional theory implemented within a tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method we perform calculations of electronic, magnetic and transport properties of ferromagnetic free-standing fcc Co wires with diameters up to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. F. Sabirianov , A. K. Solanki , J. D. Burton , S. S. Jaswal , E. Y. Tsymbal

We demonstrate here that ultrathin ferromagnetic Pt/Co/Pt films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy exhibit a sizeable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) effect. Such a DMI effect modifies the domain-wall (DW) energy density and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-25 Soong-Geun Je , Duck-Ho Kim , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Byoung-Chul Min , Kyung-Jin Lee , Sug-Bong Choe

Chiral magnetic textures in ultrathin perpendicularly magnetised multilayer film stacks with an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction have been the focus of much research recently. The chirality associated with the broken inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 K. Fallon , S. McVitie , W. Legrand , F. Ajejas , D. Maccariello , S. Collin , V. Cros , N. Reyren

Domain walls (DWs) in perpendicularly magnetized nanotracks (PMNTs) with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) have become the primary objects of theoretical and experimental interest due to their technological suitability in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Yue Zhang , Mao-Kang Shen , Zai-Dong Li , Xiao-Fei Yang , Long You