Skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets and their nucleation via electrical current and ultra-fast laser illumination

R Juge, N Sisodia, JU Larrañaga, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that hold great promise as nanoscale
information carriers in non-volatile memory and logic devices. While room-temperature …

Thermal nucleation and high-resolution imaging of submicrometer magnetic bubbles in thin thulium iron garnet films with perpendicular anisotropy

F Büttner, MA Mawass, J Bauer, E Rosenberg… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Ferrimagnetic iron garnets are promising materials for spintronics applications,
characterized by ultralow damping and zero current shunting. It has recently been found that …

Single skyrmion generation via a vertical nanocontact in a 2D magnet-based heterostructure

L Powalla, MT Birch, K Litzius, S Wintz, F Schulz… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Skyrmions have been well studied in chiral magnets and magnetic thin films due to their
potential application in practical devices. Recently, monochiral skyrmions have been …

X-ray magnetic linear dichroism as a probe for non-collinear magnetic state in ferrimagnetic single layer exchange bias systems

C Luo, H Ryll, CH Back, F Radu - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Ferrimagnetic alloys are extensively studied for their unique magnetic properties leading to
possible applications in perpendicular magnetic recording, due to their deterministic ultrafast …

Ferrimagnetic heterostructures for applications in magnetic recording

F Radu, J Sánchez-Barriga - Novel Magnetic Nanostructures, 2018 - Elsevier
We provide an overview of key fundamental aspects of a vastly growing field of research
involving ferrimagnetic heterostructures, with special focus on their functionality in magnetic …

Thickness and substrate effects on the perpendicular magnetic properties of ultra-thin TbFeCo films

K Wang, S Dong, Z Xu - Surface and Coatings Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rare-earth transition metal ultra-thin TbFeCo amorphous films in the thickness range from
3.5 to 35 nm are radio frequency (RF)-sputtered based on a composition target method …

From stripes to bubbles: Deterministic transformation of magnetic domain patterns in Co/Pt multilayers induced by laser helicity

N Novakovic-Marinkovic, MA Mawass, O Volkov… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The optical control of magnetism offers an attractive possibility to manipulate small magnetic
domains for prospective memory devices on ultrashort time scales. Here, we report on the …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio study of ultrafast spin dynamics in Gdx (FeCo) 1− x alloys

JK Dewhurst, S Shallcross, I Radu, P Elliott… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Using an ultrashort laser pulse, we explore ab initio the spin dynamics of Gd x (FeCo) 1− x at
femtosecond time scales. Optical excitations are found to drive charges from Fe majority d …

Single-shot all-optical switching of magnetization in TbFe

C Jiang, D Liu, X Song, Y Wu, H Li… - Journal of Physics D …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Thermally induced magnetization switching (TIMS) relying solely on a single laser without
any applied magnetic field is a key research direction of current spintronics. Most studies on …

Effect of monolayer ratio on single-shot all-optical switching in Gd/Fe multilayers

C Jiang, D Liu, X Song, S Tan… - Journal of Physics D …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrafast thermally induced magnetization switching (TIMS) with femtosecond lasers has
attracted much attention due to its ability to trigger a single switching on the picosecond time …