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Electric control of multiple domain walls (DWs) motion is demonstrated by Pt/Co/Pt nanotracks with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Due to the weak microstructural disorders with small DW propagation field, the purely current-driven DW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Kab-Jin Kim , Jae-Chul Lee , Sang-Jun Yun , Gi-Hong Gim , Kang-Soo Lee , Sug-Bong Choe , Kyung-Ho Shin

Control of magnetic domain wall motion by electric fields has recently attracted scientific attention because of its potential for magnetic logic and memory devices. Here, we report on a new driving mechanism that allows for magnetic domain…

We report on magnetic domain wall velocity measurements in ultrathin Pt/Co(0.5-0.8 nm)/Pt films with perpendicular anisotropy over a large range of applied magnetic fields. The complete velocity-field characteristics are obtained, enabling…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-13 P. J. Metaxas , J. P. Jamet , A. Mougin , M. Cormier , J. Ferre , V. Baltz , B. Rodmacq , B. Dieny , R. L. Stamps

We present a theoretical study of the influence of magnetic viscosity on current-driven domain wall dynamics. In particular we examine how domain wall depinning transitions, driven by thermal activation, are influenced by the adiabatic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Joo-Von Kim , Capucine Burrowes

We have studied the current-induced displacement of a domain wall (DW) in the permalloy (Py) layer of a Co/Cu/Py spin valve structure at zero and very small applied field. The displacement is in opposite direction for opposite dc currents,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Grollier , P. Boulenc , V. Cros , A. Hamzic , A. Vaures , A. Fert , G. Faini

Magnetic heterostructures that combine large spin-orbit torque efficiency, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and low resistivity are key to develop electrically-controlled memory and logic devices. Here we report on vector measurements of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-10 Abhijit Ghosh , Kevin Garello , Can Onur Avci , Mihai Gabureac , Pietro Gambardella

We theoretically and experimentally analyze the pinning of a magnetic domain wall (DW) at engineered anisotropy variations in Pt/Co/Pt strips with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. An analytical model is derived showing that a step in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Jeroen H. Franken , Mark Hoeijmakers , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Henk J. M. Swagten

The magnetization dynamics in nanostructures has been extensively studied in the last decades, and nanomagnetism has evolved significantly over that time, discovering new effects, developing numerous applications, and identifying promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-03 Mateusz Zelent , Mathieu Moalic , Olav Hellwig , Anjan Barman , Maciej Krawczyk

A possibility is discussed of observing spin injection effect on the ferromagnet domain structure by means of resonant excitation of the domain wall oscillations by a spin-polarized ac injection current. The natural frequency of the domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Elliott , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

Thermally assisted motion of magnetic domain wall under spin torque is studied theoretically. It is shown that the wall velocity $v$ depends exponentially on the spin current, $\Is$, below the threshold value, in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Gen Tatara , Nicolas Vernier , Jacques Ferre

A magnetic disc wind is an important mechanism that may be responsible for driving accretion and structure formation in protoplanetary discs. Recent numerical simulations have shown that these winds can take either the traditional…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Philip Kwong Ching Leung , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Current-driven vortex wall dynamics is studied by means of a two-dimensional analytical model and micromagnetic simulation. By constructing a trial function for the vortex wall in the magnetic wire, we analytically solve for domain wall…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Jiexuan He , Zhanjie Li , Shufeng Zhang

We study the externally-driven motion of the domain walls (DWs)of the pi/2 type in (in-the-plane ordered) nanostripes of the crystalline cubic anisotropy. Such DWs are much narrower than the transverse and vortex pi DWs of the soft-magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Andrzej Janutka , Przemyslaw Gawronski , Pawel S Ruszala

The theory of elasticity and pinning of domain walls in helical magnets is presented. Domain walls perpendicular to the helical axis show non-local elasticity and are marginally pinned by local disorder. Weak anisotropy combined with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Bahman Roostaei , Thomas Nattermann

Domain wall propagation in cylindrical nanowires with modulations of diameter is a key phenomenon to design physics-oriented devices, or a disruptive three-dimensional magnetic memory. This chapter presents a combination of analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 A. De Riz , B. Trapp , J. A. Fernandez-Roldan , Ch. Thirion , J. -Ch. Toussaint , O. Fruchart , D. Gusakova

We describe time-domain measurements which provide new information about the large-angle nonlinear dynamics of nanomagnets excited by spin-transfer torque from a spin-polarized current. Sampling-oscilloscope measurements, which average over…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 I. N. Krivorotov , N. C. Emley , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

Within the s-d model description, we derive the current-driven spin torque in a ferromagnet, taking explicitly into account a spin-relaxing Caldeira-Leggett bath coupling to the s-electrons. We derive Bloch-Redfield equations of motion for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 M. Thorwart , R. Egger

Current induced domain wall (DW) motion has been investigated in a 600-nm wide nanowire using multilayer film with a structure of Ta(5 nm)/Pd(5 nm)/[CoFe(0.4 nm)/Pd(1.2 nm)]$_{15}$/Ta(5 nm)in terms of anomalous Hall effect measurements. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Zhaoliang Meng , Manoj Kumar , Jinjun Qiu , Guchang Han , Kie Leong Teo , Duc-The Ngo

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,…

N\'eel magnetic domain walls that are stabilized by achiral energy terms instead of the usual Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction will be bistable, with the two possible chiral forms being degenerate. Here we focus on the theoretical study of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Eloi Haltz , Kévin J. A. Franke , Christopher H. Marrows