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合成亚铁磁体纳米线中耦合畴壁运动的极低临界电流密度

Very low critical current density for motion of coupled domain walls in synthetic ferrimagnet nanowires

Serban Lepadatu, Henri Saarikoski, Robert Beacham, Maria Jose Benitez, Thomas A. Moore, Gavin Burnell, Satoshi Sugimoto, Daniel Yesudas, May C. Wheeler, Jorge M… 展开作者

Serban Lepadatu, Henri Saarikoski, Robert Beacham, Maria Jose Benitez, Thomas A. Moore, Gavin Burnell, Satoshi Sugimoto, Daniel Yesudas, May C. Wheeler, Jorge Miguel, Sarnjeet S. Dhesi, Damien McGrouther, Stephen McVitie, Gen Tatara, Christopher H. Marrows

摘要:

铁磁纳米线中的畴壁是未来技术的潜在基石,例如赛道存储器,其中畴壁中编码的数据使用自旋极化电流传输。然而,高能效器件的发展受到了启动畴壁运动所需的高电流密度的阻碍。在这里,我们表明,一个显着的临界电流密度的减少,可以实现在CoFe/Ru/CoFe合成亚铁磁轨道的面内磁化耦合畴壁。层之间的反铁磁交换耦合导致简单的Néel壁结构,使用光电发射电子和洛伦兹透射电子显微镜成像,宽度仅为$\sim 100$ ~nm。使用磁输运测量检测到的使这些壁运动的测量临界电流密度为$1.0 \times 10^{11}$ ~Am $^{-2}$,几乎比铁磁耦合的对照样品低一个数量级。理论模型表明,这是由于非绝热驱动的各向异性耦合壁,一种机制,可用于设计有效的畴壁设备。

英文摘要:

Domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires are potential building-blocks of future technologies such as racetrack memories, in which data encoded in the domain walls are transported using spin-polarised currents. However, the development of energy-efficient devices has been hampered by the high current densities needed to initiate domain wall motion. We show here that a remarkable reduction in the critical current density can be achieved for in-plane magnetised coupled domain walls in CoFe/Ru/CoFe synthetic ferrimagnet tracks. The antiferromagnetic exchange coupling between the layers leads to simple Néel wall structures, imaged using photoemission electron and Lorentz transmission electron microscopy, with a width of only $\sim 100$~nm. The measured critical current density to set these walls in motion, detected using magnetotransport measurements, is $1.0 \times 10^{11}$~Am$^{-2}$, almost an order of magnitude lower than in a ferromagnetically coupled control sample. Theoretical modelling indicates that this is due to nonadiabatic driving of anisotropically coupled walls, a mechanism that can be used to design efficient domain-wall devices.

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