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Use of a spin polarized current for the manipulation of magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires has been the subject of intensive research for many years. Recently, due to technological advancements, creating nano-contacts with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Hamidreza Kazemi , Sebastian Eggert , Nicholas Sedlmayr

Racetrack memory based on magnetic domain walls (DWs) motion exhibits advantages of small volume and high reading speed. When compared to current-induced DW motion, voltage-induced DW motion exhibits lower dissipation. On the other hand,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Fa Chen , Zhendong Zhang , Wei Luo , Xiaofei Yang , Long You , Yue Zhang

Searching for new methods controlling antiferromagnetic (AFM) domain wall is one of the most important issues for AFM spintronic device operation. In this work, we study theoretically the domain wall motion of an AFM nanowire, driven by the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 D. L. Wen , Z. Y. Chen , W. H. Li , M. H. Qin , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , J. M. Liu

Using density functional theory implemented within a tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method we perform calculations of electronic, magnetic and transport properties of ferromagnetic free-standing fcc Co wires with diameters up to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. F. Sabirianov , A. K. Solanki , J. D. Burton , S. S. Jaswal , E. Y. Tsymbal

We have carried out measurements of domain wall dynamics in a Pt/Co/GdOx(t) wedge sample with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. When driven by an easy-axis field Hz in the presence of an in-plane field Hx, the domain wall expansion along x…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-29 M. Vanatka , J. -C. Rojas-Sanchez , J. Vogel , M. Bonfim , A. Thiaville , S. Pizzini

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy [Co/Pd]15 and L10-FePt nanowire arrays of period 63 nm with linewidths 38 nm and 27 nm and film thickness 27 nm and 20 nm respectively were fabricated using a self-assembled PS-b-PDMS diblock copolymer film…

We study the effect of disorder on the dynamics of a transverse domain wall in ferromagnetic nanostrips, driven either by magnetic fields or spin-polarized currents, by performing a large ensemble of GPU-accelerated micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Ben Van de Wiele , Lasse Laurson , Gianfranco Durin

It is well documented that subjecting perpendicular magnetic films which exhibit the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) to an in-plane magnetic field results in a domain wall (DW) energy, $\sigma$, that is highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-19 Price Pellegren , Derek Lau , Vincent Sokalski

We study current induced magnetization dynamics in a long thin ferromagnetic wire with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We find a spiral domain wall configuration of the magnetization and obtain an analytical expression for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-06 Oleg A. Tretiakov , Ar. Abanov

Perpendicularly magnetized materials have attracted tremendous interest due to their high anisotropy, which results in extremely narrow, nano-sized domain walls. As a result, the recently studied current-induced domain wall motion (CIDWM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 P. P. J. Haazen , E. Murè , J. H. Franken , R. Lavrijsen , H. J. M. Swagten , B. Koopmans

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

Current driven domain wall motion in curved Heavy Metal/Ferrimagnetic/Oxide multilayer strips is investigated using systematic micromagnetic simulations which account for spin-orbit coupling phenomena. Domain wall velocity and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-25 David Osuna Ruiz , Óscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

Chirality as internal degree of freedom of a mesoscopic domain wall inside a quasi-one-dimensional fixture can be controlled by spin-polarized current for ferro- as well as anti-ferro-magnetic domain walls. We show that the current density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Oleksiy Kolezhuk , Roman Teslia , Ihor Buryak , Olena Gomonay

Electric field effects in ferromagnetic/oxide dielectric structures provide a new route to control domain wall (DW) dynamics with low power dissipation. However, electric field effects on DW velocities have only been observed so far in the…

We have studied current-driven domain wall motion in modified Ga_0.95Mn_0.05As Hall bar structures with perpendicular anisotropy by using spatially resolved Polar Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect Microscopy and micromagnetic simulation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Y. Wang , A. C. Irvine , R. P. Campion , C. T. Foxon , J. Wunderlich , D. A. Williams , B. L. Gallagher

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

We study the current-driven domain wall (DW) motion in cylindrical nanowires using micromagnetic simulations by implementing the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with nonlocal spin-transfer torque in a finite difference micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Weiwei Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ryan A. Pepper , Congpu Mu , Yan Zhou , Hans Fangohr

The future developments of three-dimensional magnetic nanotechnology require the control of domain wall dynamics by means of current pulses. While this has been extensively studied in planar magnetic strips (planar nanowires), few reports…

Spintronic devices, whose operation is based on the motion of a magnetic domain wall (DW), have been proposed recently. If a DW could be driven directly by flowing an electric current instead of a magnetic field, the performance and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Akinobu Yamaguchi , Teruo Ono , Saburo Nasu , Kousaku Miyake , Ko Mibu , Teruya Shinjo

The current-driven motion of a domain wall (DW) in a ferromagnet with many Bloch lines (BLs) via the spin transfer torque is studied theoretically. It is found that the motion of BLs changes the current-velocity ($j$-$v$) characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Junichi Iwasaki , Naoto Nagaosa