Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures
Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures recently observed at room temperature in multilayer films. Their topological stability will enable high scalability in confined geometries—a sought-after attribute for device applications. Despite numerous theoretical studies examining sub-100-nm Néel sk...
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| author | Ho, Pin Goolaup, S. Soumyanarayanan, Anjan Panagopoulos, Christos Tan, Anthony K. C. Huang, L. S. Gonzalez Oyarce, A. L. Raju, Masapogu |
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| description | Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures recently observed at room temperature in multilayer films. Their topological stability will enable high scalability in confined geometries—a sought-after attribute for device applications. Despite numerous theoretical studies examining sub-100-nm Néel skyrmions in nanostructures, in practice their ambient stability and evolution with confinement and their magnetic parameters remain to be established. Here we present the zero-field stabilization of sub-100-nm room-temperature Néel-textured skyrmions confined in Ir/Fe(x)/Co(y)/Pt nanodots over a wide range of magnetic and geometric parameters. The zero-field skyrmion size, here as small as approximately 50 nm, can be tailored by a factor of 4 with variation of dot size and magnetic interactions. Crucially, skyrmions with differing thermodynamic stability exhibit an unexpected dichotomy in confinement phenomenologies. These results establish skyrmion phenomenology in multilayer nanostructures, and prompt the synergistic use of magnetic and geometric parameters to achieve desired properties in devices. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/857222023-02-28T19:33:31Z Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures Ho, Pin Goolaup, S. Soumyanarayanan, Anjan Panagopoulos, Christos Tan, Anthony K. C. Huang, L. S. Gonzalez Oyarce, A. L. Raju, Masapogu School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Spintronics DRNTU::Science::Physics Magnetism Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures recently observed at room temperature in multilayer films. Their topological stability will enable high scalability in confined geometries—a sought-after attribute for device applications. Despite numerous theoretical studies examining sub-100-nm Néel skyrmions in nanostructures, in practice their ambient stability and evolution with confinement and their magnetic parameters remain to be established. Here we present the zero-field stabilization of sub-100-nm room-temperature Néel-textured skyrmions confined in Ir/Fe(x)/Co(y)/Pt nanodots over a wide range of magnetic and geometric parameters. The zero-field skyrmion size, here as small as approximately 50 nm, can be tailored by a factor of 4 with variation of dot size and magnetic interactions. Crucially, skyrmions with differing thermodynamic stability exhibit an unexpected dichotomy in confinement phenomenologies. These results establish skyrmion phenomenology in multilayer nanostructures, and prompt the synergistic use of magnetic and geometric parameters to achieve desired properties in devices. NRF (Natl Research Foundation, S’pore) ASTAR (Agency for Sci., Tech. and Research, S’pore) MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Published version 2019-05-16T08:05:21Z 2019-12-06T16:09:03Z 2019-05-16T08:05:21Z 2019-12-06T16:09:03Z 2019 Journal Article Ho, P., Tan, A. K. C., Goolaup, S., Gonzalez Oyarce, A. L., Raju, M., Huang, L. S., . . . Panagopoulos, C. (2019). Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures. Physical Review Applied, 11(2), 024064-. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.024064 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85722 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48238 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.024064 en Physical Review Applied © 2019 American Physical Society. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Physical Review Applied and is made available with permission of American Physical Society. 9 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Spintronics DRNTU::Science::Physics Magnetism Ho, Pin Goolaup, S. Soumyanarayanan, Anjan Panagopoulos, Christos Tan, Anthony K. C. Huang, L. S. Gonzalez Oyarce, A. L. Raju, Masapogu Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures |
| title | Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures |
| title_full | Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures |
| title_fullStr | Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures |
| title_short | Geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures |
| title_sort | geometrically tailored skyrmions at zero magnetic field in multilayered nanostructures |
| topic | Spintronics DRNTU::Science::Physics Magnetism |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85722 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48238 |
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