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磁电颗粒薄膜反铁磁体的纳米磁性

Nanomagnetism of magnetoelectric granular thin-film antiferromagnets

Patrick Appel, Brendan J. Shields, Tobias Kosub, René Hübner, Jürgen Faßbender, Denys Makarov, Patrick Maletinsky

摘要:

反铁磁体最近成为自旋电子学应用的有吸引力的平台,与铁磁体相比,提供了全新的功能。虽然纳米薄膜材料是未来反铁磁自旋电子学技术发展的关键,但在纳米尺度上探索这种薄膜的实验工具仍然很少。在这里,我们提供了一个解决这个技术瓶颈,通过解决无处不在的表面磁化的磁电反铁磁体的颗粒状薄膜样品在纳米尺度上使用单自旋磁强计结合自旋敏感的运输实验。具体来说,我们定量成像了200 nm Cr $_2$ O $_3$薄膜中单个纳米级反铁磁畴在真实空间中以及顺磁到反铁磁相变中的演变。这些实验使我们能够辨别的Cr $_2$ O $_3$薄膜的关键性能,包括域形成的机制和组成膜的各个晶粒之间的交换耦合的强度。我们的工作为Cr $_2$ O $_3$的磁有序机制提供了新的见解,并建立了单自旋磁测量作为一种新的,广泛适用的反铁磁薄膜纳米级寻址的工具。

英文摘要:

Antiferromagnets have recently emerged as attractive platforms for spintronics applications, offering fundamentally new functionalities compared to their ferromagnetic counterparts. While nanoscale thin film materials are key to the development of future antiferromagnetic spintronics technologies, experimental tools to explore such films on the nanoscale are still sparse. Here, we offer a solution to this technological bottleneck, by addressing the ubiquitous surface magnetisation of magnetoelectic antiferromagnets in a granular thin film sample on the nanoscale using single-spin magnetometry in combination with spin-sensitive transport experiments. Specifically, we quantitatively image the evolution of individual nanoscale antiferromagnetic domains in 200-nm thin-films of Cr$_2$O$_3$ in real space and across the paramagnet-to-antiferromagnet phase transition. These experiments allow us to discern key properties of the Cr$_2$O$_3$ thin film, including the mechanism of domain formation and the strength of exchange coupling between individual grains comprising the film. Our work offers novel insights into Cr$_2$O$_3$'s magnetic ordering mechanism and establishes single spin magnetometry as a novel, widely applicable tool for nanoscale addressing of antiferromagnetic thin films.

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