Opportunities at the frontiers of spintronics

A Hoffmann, SD Bader - Physical Review Applied, 2015 - APS
The field of spintronics, or magnetic electronics, is maturing and giving rise to new subfields.
These new directions involve the study of collective spin excitations and couplings of the …

Measuring interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in ultrathin magnetic films

M Kuepferling, A Casiraghi, G Soares, G Durin… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), one of the origins of chiral magnetism, is
currently attracting considerable attention in the research community focusing on applied …

The skyrmion switch: turning magnetic skyrmion bubbles on and off with an electric field

M Schott, A Bernand-Mantel, L Ranno, S Pizzini… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nanoscale magnetic skyrmions are considered as potential information carriers for future
spintronics memory and logic devices. Such applications will require the control of their local …

Bulk Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys

DH Kim, M Haruta, HW Ko, G Go, HJ Park… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Symmetry breaking is a fundamental concept that prevails in many branches of physics,,,–.
In magnetic materials, broken inversion symmetry induces the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya …

Effect of interfacial intermixing on the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Pt/Co/Pt

AWJ Wells, PM Shepley, CH Marrows, TA Moore - Physical review B, 2017 - APS
We study the effect of sputter-deposition conditions, namely, substrate temperature and
chamber base pressure, upon the interface quality of epitaxial Pt/Co/Pt thin films with …

Chiral damping of magnetic domain walls

E Jué, CK Safeer, M Drouard, A Lopez, P Balint… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Structural symmetry breaking in magnetic materials is responsible for the existence of
multiferroics, current-induced spin–orbit torques,,,,, and some topological magnetic …

Magnetization ratchet in cylindrical nanowires

C Bran, E Berganza, JA Fernandez-Roldan… - Acs Nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
The unidirectional motion of information carriers such as domain walls in magnetic
nanostrips is a key feature for many future spintronic applications based on shift registers …

Position error-free control of magnetic domain-wall devices via spin-orbit torque modulation

SH Lee, M Kim, HS Whang, YS Nam, JH Park… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic domain-wall devices such as racetrack memory and domain-wall shift registers
facilitate massive data storage as hard disk drives with low power portability as flash …

Existence of in-plane magnetic skyrmion and its motion under current flow

KW Moon, J Yoon, C Kim, C Hwang - Physical review applied, 2019 - APS
A magnetic skyrmion usually refers to a twisted spin texture in a uniformly aligned
magnetization state. Such spin texture is protected by topology, which makes the skyrmion a …

Magnetic droplet nucleation with a homochiral Néel domain wall

S Kim, PH Jang, DH Kim, M Ishibashi, T Taniguchi… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
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 …