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Electron transport combined with magnetism has gained more attention to the spintronics community in the last few decades. Among them, the topological Hall effect (THE), which arises due to the emergent magnetic field of a non-trivial…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 Brindaban Ojha , Shaktiranjan Mohanty , Bhuvneshwari Sharma , Subhankar Bedanta

All-optical switching (AOS) of magnetization by a single femtosecond laser pulse in Co/Gd based synthetic ferrimagnets is the fastest magnetization switching process. On the other hand, He ion irradiation has become a promising tool for…

Skyrmions can be stabilized in magnetic systems with broken inversion symmetry and chiral interactions, such as Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI). Further, compensation of magnetic moments in ferrimagnetic materials can significantly…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-05 Y. Quessab , J. -W. Xu , C. T. Ma , W. Zhou , G. A. Riley , J. M. Shaw , H. T. Nembach , S. J. Poon , A. D. Kent

We show that magnetic skyrmions can be stabilized at room temperature in continuous Ir/Co/Pt multilayers on SiO2/Si substrate without prior application of electric current or magnetic field. While decreasing the Co thickness, tuning of the…

We investigate the effect of the Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI) on magnetic domain nucleation in a ferromagnetic thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. We propose an extended droplet model to determine the nucleation…

We demonstrate a novel approach to control and stabilize magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin multilayer nanostructures through spatially engineered magnetostatic fields generated by ferromagnetic nanorings. Using analytical modeling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mateusz Zelent , Maciej Krawczyk , Konstantin Y. Guslienko

Isolated magnetic skyrmions are stable, topologically protected spin textures that are at the forefront of research interests today due to their potential applications in information technology. A distinct class of skyrmion hosts are rare…

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…

We have performed an experimental and modeling-based study of the spin-orbit torque-induced growth of magnetic stripe domains in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin-film heterostructures that possess chiral N\'eel-type domain walls due to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jeffrey A. Brock , Daan Swinkels , Bert Koopmans , Eric E. Fullerton

Antiferromagnetic materials present us with rich and exciting physics, which we can exploit to open new avenues in spintronic device applications. We explore perpendicularly magnetized exchange biased systems of Pt/Co/IrMn and Pt/Co/FeMn,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Risalat A. Khan , Hans T. Nembach , Mannan Ali , Justin M. Shaw , Christopher H. Marrows , Thomas A. Moore

The manipulation of magnetism with a gate voltage is expected to lead the way towards the realization of energy-efficient spintronics devices and high-performance magnetic memories. Exploiting magneto-ionic effects under micro-patterned…

We report on the controlled switching of domain wall (DW) magnetization in aligned stripe domain structures, stabilized in [Co (0.44 nm)/Pt (0.7 nm)]$_X$ ($X = 48$, 100, 150) multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The switching…

The presence of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) may lead to the appearance of N\'eel skyrmions in ferromagnetic films. These topologically protected structures, whose diameter is as small as a few nanometers, can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Mattia Bassotti , Raffaele Silvani , Giovanni Carlotti

We show that it is possible to engineer magnetic multi-domain configurations without domain walls in a prototypical rare earth/transition metal ferrimagnet using keV He+ ion bombardment. We additionally shown that these patterns display a…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures that are promising candidates for low-power spintronic memory and logic devices. Realizing skyrmion-based devices requires an understanding of how structural disorder affects…

Recent advances on the stabilization and manipulation of chiral magnetization configurations in systems consisting in alternating atomic layers of ferromagnetic and non-magnetic materials hold promise of innovation in spintronics…

We use He$^+$ irradiation to tune the nonlinearity, $\mathcal{N}$, of all-perpendicular spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNOs) using the He$^+$ fluence-dependent perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) of the [Co/Ni] free layer. Employing…

Recently, great effort has been devoted to the search for two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic materials with inherent strong Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya interaction (DMI). Here, through a first-principles approach, we systematically investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-14 Zhong Shen , Changsheng Song , Yufei Xue , Zebin Wu , Jiqing Wang , Zhicheng Zhong

Pt/Co/heavy metal (HM) tri-layered structures with interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) are currently under intensive research for several emerging spintronic effects, such as spinorbit torque, domain wall motion, and room…

Magnetic multilayers of (Ir/Co/Pt)$_6$ with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (IDMI) were deposited by magnetron sputtering with Co thickness $d=1.8$ nm. Exploiting magneto-optical Kerr effect in longitudinal mode microscopy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 A. K. Dhiman , R. Gieniusz , P. Gruszecki , J. Kisielewski , M. Matczak , Z. Kurant , I. Sveklo , U. Guzowska , M. Tekielak , F. Stobiecki , A. Maziewski