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Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in magnetic objects is of enormous interest, because it generates a built-in chirality of magnetic domain walls (DWs) and topologically-protected skyrmions for efficient motion driven by spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-15 Duck-Ho Kim , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Dae-Yun Kim , Byoung-Chul Min , Sug-Bong Choe

Curvilinear geometries in magnetic nanostructures provide a unique platform for exploring the interplay of symmetry, topology, and curvature in magnetization dynamics. In this work, we analytically study the static and dynamic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Svitlana Kondovych , Denis D. Sheka

The magnetic properties of ferromagnetic thin films down to the nanoscale are ruled by the exchange stiffness, anisotropies and the effects of magnetic fields. As surfaces break inversion symmetry, an additional effective chiral exchange is…

Using in-plane field dependence of the precessional flow of chiral domain walls (DWs) to simultaneously determine bulk and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMIs) is proposed. It is found that effective fields of bulk and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-04 Jie Lu , Mei Li , X. R. Wang

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

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) has recently attracted considerable interest owing to its fundamental role in the stabilization of chiral spin textures in ultrathin ferromagnets, which are interesting candidates for future…

Chiral magnetic materials provide a number of challenging issues such as the highly efficient domain wall (DW) and skyrmion motions driven by electric current, as of the operation principles of emerging spintronic devices. The DWs in the…

The orientation of a chiral magnetic domain wall in a racetrack determines its dynamical properties. In equilibrium, magnetic domain walls are expected to be oriented perpendicular to the stripe axis. We demonstrate the appearance of a…

Recent advances in nanofabrication make it possible to produce multilayer nanostructures composed of ultrathin film materials with thickness down to a few monolayers of atoms and lateral extent of several tens of nanometers. At these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Cyrill B. Muratov , Valeriy V. Slastikov

Spin waves in perpendicularly-magnetized Pt/Co/AlO$_x$/Pt ultrathin films with varying Co thicknesses (0.6-1.2 nm) have been studied with Brillouin light spectroscopy in the Damon-Eshbach geometry. The measurements reveal a pronounced…

In ultrathin ferromagnetic films sandwiched between two distinct heavy metal layers or between a heavy metal and an oxide layer, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is of interfacial origin. Its chirality and strength are determined…

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is intimately related to the prospect of superior domain-wall dynamics and the formation of magnetic skyrmions. Although some experimental efforts have been recently proposed to…

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

It is shown that a term in the form of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) contributes to the free energy of a ferromagnetic (FM) film on a paramagnetic (PM) (an FM above the critical temperature, Tc) or superconducting (SC) substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 M. A. Kuznetsov , K. R. Mukhamatchin , A. A. Fraerman

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in the ferromagnetic/heavy metal ultra-thin film structures , has attracted a lot of attention thanks to its capability to stabilize Neel-type domain walls (DWs) and magnetic skyrmions…

We show that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) can lead to a tilting of the domain wall (DW) surface in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic nanotracks when DW dynamics is driven by an easy axis magnetic field or a spin polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 O. Boulle , S. Rohart , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , E. Jué , I. M. Miron , S. Pizzini , J. Vogel , G. Gaudin , A. Thiaville

A broken interfacial inversion symmetry in ultrathin ferromagnet/heavy metal (FM/HM) bilayers is generally believed to be a prerequisite for accommodating the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and for stabilizing chiral spin textures.…

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is the key ingredient of chiral spintronic phenomena and the emerging technologies based on such phenomena. A nonzero DMI usually occurs at magnetic interfaces or within non-centrosymmetric single…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-06 Lijun Zhu , David Lujan , Xiaoqin Li

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

Chiral domain walls in ultrathin perpendicularly magnetised layers have a N\'{e}el structure stabilised by a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) that is generated at the interface between the ferromagnet and a heavy metal. Different…