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We demonstrate all-optical manipulation of magnetic domains in NiO/Pt and CoO/Pt thin films with insulating antiferromagnetic layers. Using magneto-optical birefringence imaging, we show that even a single laser pulse can thermally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Maciej Dąbrowski , Tong Wu , Connor R. J. Sait , Jia Xu , Paul S. Keatley , Yizheng Wu , Robert J. Hicken , Olena Gomonay

Ultrafast electric manipulation of magnetic order in solids is critical for the development of future terahertz data processing. A fascinating concept for such high-speed operation is offered in metallic antiferromagnets by N\'eel…

Antiferromagnets that display very small stray magnetic field are ideal for spintronic applications. Of particular interest are non-collinear, chiral antiferromagnets of the type Mn3X (X=Sn, Ge), which display a large magnetotransport…

Whether a zero-moment antiferromagnet can host an intrinsic half-metallic ground state with a single-spin Fermi surface remains an open question in antiferromagnetic spintronics. Existing proposals in compensated magnets reach only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Xin Chen , Jin Zou , Lipeng Song , Wei Sun , Yiwen Wu , Luyao Zhu , Xu Cheng , Duo Wang , Biplab Sanyal

We probe the current-induced magnetic switching of insulating antiferromagnet/heavy metals systems, by electrical spin Hall magnetoresistance measurements and direct imaging, identifying a reversal occurring by domain wall (DW) motion. We…

Two-dimensional antiferromagnets, combining the dual advantages of van der Waals (vdW) and antiferromagnetic materials, provide an unprecedented platform for exploring emergent spin-related phenomena. However, electrical manipulation of…

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) exhibit spin arrangements with no net magnetization, positioning them as promising candidates for spintronics applications. While electrical manipulation of the single-crystal AFMs, composed of periodic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-19 Chao-Yao Yang , Sheng-Huai Chen , Chih-Hsiang Tseng , Chang-Yang Kuo , Hsiu-Hau Lin , Chih-Huang Lai

We observe strongly nonlinear spin dynamics in ferro-/antiferro-magnetic multilayers, controlled by the number of bilayers in the system, layer thicknesses, as well as temperature, peaking in magnitude near the N\'eel point of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 O. Busel , D. Polishchuk , A. Kravets , V. Korenivski

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics driven by the advantages of antiferromagnets producing no stray fields and exhibiting ultrafast magnetization dynamics. The efficient method to detect an AFM order…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-25 Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Gautam Gurung , Meng Zhu , Peina Zhang , Fanxing Zheng , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Jia Zhang

Antiferromagnets offer spintronic device characteristics unparalleled in ferromagnets owing to their lack of stray fields, THz spin dynamics, and rich materials landscape. Microscopic imaging of aniferromagnetic domains is one of the key…

We demonstrate how shape-induced strain can be used to control antiferromagnetic order in NiO/Pt thin films. For rectangular elements patterned along the easy and hard magnetocrystalline anisotropy axes of our film, we observe different…

Nonvolatile spintronics-based devices that utilize electron spin both to store and transport information face a great challenge when scaled to nano dimensions due to loss of thermal stability and stray field induced disturbance in closely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Kutay Akin , Hasan Piskin , Ege Selvi , Emre Demircanli , Sevval Ari , Mohammad Hassan Ramezan zadeh , Bayram Kocaman , Ozhan Ozatay

We report measurements demonstrating that when the Neel vector of the collinear antiferromagnet RuO2 is appropriately canted relative to the sample plane, the antiferromagnet generates a substantial out of plane damping-like torque. The…

Antiferromagnetic thin films typically exhibit a multi-domain state, and control of the antiferromagnetic N\'eel vector is challenging as antiferromagnetic materials are robust to magnetic perturbations. By relying on anisotropic in-plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 K. Kjærnes , I. Hallsteinsen , R. V. Chopdekar , M. Moreau , T. Bolstad , I-H. Svenum , S. M. Selbach , T. Tybell

Magnetic straintronics, the strain-mediated control of magnetic anisotropy, has emerged as a key direction for next-generation energy-efficient technologies. In multiferroic heterostructures, magnetoelectric coupling is typically achieved…

We present a concept of a tunable optical excitation of spin waves and filtering their spectra in a ferromagnetic film with 180$^{\circ}$ N\'eel domain wall. We show by means of micromagnetic simulation that the fluence of the femtosecond…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-29 N. E. Khokhlov , A. E. Khramova , Ia. A. Filatov , P. I. Gerevenkov , B. A. Klinskaya , A. M. Kalashnikova

Voltage-induced magnetic anisotropy has been quantitatively studied in polycrystalline Ni thin film deposited on flexible substrate using microstrip ferromagnetic resonance. This anisotropy is induced by a piezoelectric actuator on which…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-03 Fatih Zighem , Damien Faurie , Silvana Mercone , Mohamed Belmeguenai , Halim Haddadi

Antiferromagnets offer much faster dynamics compared to their ferromagnetic counterparts but their order parameter is extremely difficult to detect and control. So far, controlling the N\'eel order parameter electrically is limited to only…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-09 Sarah Jenkins , Tobias Wagner , Olena Gomonay , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Electrical switching of N\'eel order in an antiferromagnetic insulator is desirable as a basis for memory applications. Unlike electrically-driven switching of ferromagnetic order via spin-orbit torques, electrical switching of…

Optical methods for magnetism manipulation have been considered as a promising strategy for ultralow-power and ultrahigh-speed spin switches, which becomes a hot spot in the field of spintronics. However, a widely applicable and efficient…