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Ferroelectric domain walls represent multifunctional 2D-elements with great potential for novel device paradigms at the nanoscale. Improper ferroelectrics display particularly promising types of domain walls, which, due to their unique…

The discovery that a spin polarized current can exert a large torque on a ferromagnet through a transfusion of spin angular momentum, offers a new way to control a magnetization by simple current injection, without the help of an applied…

The effect of damping-like spin-orbit torque (DL SOT) on magnetic domain walls (DWs) in in-plane magnetised soft tracks is studied analytically and with micromagnetic simulations. We find that DL SOT drives vortex DWs, whereas transverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-02 Ryuhei Kohno , João Sampaio , Stanislas Rohart , André Thiaville

Due to the difficulty in detecting and manipulating magnetic states of antiferromagnetic materials, studying their switching dynamics using electrical methods remains a challenging task. In this work, by employing heavy metal/rare…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-03 Saima A Siddiqui , Jiahao Han , Joseph T Finley , Caroline A Ross , Luqiao Liu

Dynamics and textures of magnetic domain walls (DWs) may largely alter the electronic behaviors in a Weyl semimetal system via emergent gauge fields. However, very little is known about even the basic properties of these domain walls in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-01 Bochao Xu , Jacob Franklin , Hung-Yu Yang , Fazel Tafti , Ilya Sochnikov

In this work, we have investigated the domain wall (DW) depinning behavior in the notched nanowire by a micromagnetic simulation. A transverse domain wall (TW) was initially positioned at the center of notch and 1 ns length current pulse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Candra Kurniawan , Dede Djuhana

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

Domain wall (DW) devices have garnered recent interest for diverse applications including memory, logic, and neuromorphic primitives; fast, accurate device models are therefore imperative for large-scale system design and verification.…

We report on the evolution of ferromagnetic domain walls during magnetization reversal in elastically coupled ferromagnetic-ferroelectric heterostructures. Using optical polarization microscopy and micromagnetic simulations, we demonstrate…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-25 Kévin J. A. Franke , Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen , Sebastiaan van Dijken

A domain wall (DW) in a ferromagnetic nanowire is composed of elementary topological bulk and edge defects with integer and fractional winding numbers, respectively, whose relative spatial arrangement determines the chirality of the DW.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Aakash Pushp , Timothy Phung , Charles Rettner , Brian P. Hughes , See-Hun Yang , Luc Thomas , Stuart S. P. Parkin

Understanding the domain wall dynamics is an important issue in modern magnetism. Here we present results of domain wall displacement in curved cylindrical nanowires at a constant magnetic field. We show that the average velocity of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 R. Moreno , V. L. Carvalho-Santos , A. P. Espejo , D. Laroze , O. Chubykalo-Fesenko , D. Altbir

Magnetic domain-wall (DW) has been widely investigated for future memory and computing systems. However, energy efficiency and stability become two major challenges of DW-based systems. In this letter, we first propose exploiting skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Wang Kang , Yangqi Huang , Xichao Zhang , Yan Zhou , Weifeng Lv , Weisheng Zhao

Domain wall propagation in modulated-diameter cylindrical nanowires is a key phenomenon to be studied with a view to designing three-dimensional magnetic memory devices. This paper presents a theoretical study of transverse domain wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 J. A. Fernandez-Roldan , A. De Riz , B. Trapp , C. Thirion , J. -C. Toussaint , O. Fruchart , D. Gusakova

We report on a method to tune the orientation of in-plane magnetic domains and domain walls in thin ferromagnetic strips by manipulating the magnetic anisotropy. Uniaxial in-plane anisotropy is induced in a controlled way by oblique…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-17 S. Cherifi , R. Hertel , A. Locatelli , Y. Watanabe , G. Potdevin , A. Ballestrazzi , M. Balboni , S. Heun

Electrically manipulating domain wall (DW) is at central in the field of spintronics. Magnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) offers an additional knob for electric manipulation of DW by utilizing the topological DW bound states. Using magnetic WSM…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-07 Qiang Li , Haiyang Ma , Xin Zhang , Yanfeng Guo , Jianpeng Liu , Wenbo Wang , Xiaodong Zhou , Jian Shen

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

Sliding ferroelectrics constructed from stacked nonpolar monolayers enable out-of-plane polarization in two dimensions with exceptional properties, including ultrafast switching speeds and fatigue-free behavior. However, the widely accepted…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-04 Changming Ke , Fucai Liu , Shi Liu

We study domain wall (DW) motion induced by spin waves (magnons) in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). The DMI exerts a torque on the DW when spin waves pass through the DW, and this torque represents a linear momentum…

Magnetic sensors based on the magnetoresistance effects have a promising application prospect due to their excellent sensitivity and advantages in terms of the integration. However, competition between higher sensitivity and larger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Xueying Zhang , Nicolas Vernier , Zhiqiang Cao , Qunwen Leng , Anni Cao , Dafine Ravelosona , Weisheng Zhao

A method for deterministic control of the magnetic order parameter using an electrical stimulus is highly desired for the new generation of spintronic and magnetoelectronic devices. Much effort has been focused on magnetic domain-wall…