Interfacial control of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in heavy metal/ferromagnetic metal thin film heterostructures

Ma, Xin; Yu, Guoqiang; Li, Xiang; Wang, Tao; Wu, Di; Olsson, Kevin S.; Chu, Zhaodong; An, Kyongmo; Xiao, John Q.; Wang, Kang L.; Li, Xiaoqin

doi:10.1103/physrevb.94.180408

Interfacial control of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in heavy metal/ferromagnetic metal thin film heterostructures

Journal Article · Sun Nov 27 23:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.94.180408· OSTI ID:1388922

Ma, Xin ^[1]; Yu, Guoqiang ^[2]; Li, Xiang ^[2]; Wang, Tao ^[3]; Wu, Di ^[2]; Olsson, Kevin S. ^[1]; Chu, Zhaodong ^[1]; An, Kyongmo ^[1]; Xiao, John Q. ^[3]; Wang, Kang L. ^[2]; Li, Xiaoqin ^[1]

Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in ultrathin magnetic thin film heterostructures provides a new approach for controlling spin textures on mesoscopic length scales. Here we investigate the dependence of the interfacial DMI constant D on a Pt wedge insertion layer in Ta/CoFeB/Pt(wedge)/MgO thin films by observing the asymmetric spin-wave dispersion using Brillouin light scattering. Continuous tuning of D by more than a factor of 3 is realized by inserting less than one monolayer of Pt. The observations in this work provide new insights for designing magnetic thin film heterostructures with tailored D for controlling skyrmions and magnetic domain-wall chirality and dynamics.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems (SHINES)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012670

OSTI ID:: 1388922

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1333590

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 18 Vol. 94; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (38)

Nonreciprocal surface waves Camley, R. E. Surface Science Reports, Vol. 7, Issue 3-4 https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-5729(87)90006-9	journal	July 1987
Room-Temperature Creation and Spin–Orbit Torque Manipulation of Skyrmions in Thin Films with Engineered Asymmetry Yu, Guoqiang; Upadhyaya, Pramey; Li, Xiang Nano Letters, Vol. 16, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b05257	journal	February 2016
Tailoring the chirality of magnetic domain walls by interface engineering Chen, Gong; Ma, Tianping; N’Diaye, Alpha T. Nature Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3671	journal	October 2013
Interface control of the magnetic chirality in CoFeB/MgO heterostructures with heavy-metal underlayers Torrejon, Jacob; Kim, Junyeon; Sinha, Jaivardhan Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5655	journal	August 2014
Thickness dependence of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in inversion symmetry broken systems Cho, Jaehun; Kim, Nam-Hui; Lee, Sukmock Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8635	journal	July 2015
Current-driven dynamics of chiral ferromagnetic domain walls Emori, Satoru; Bauer, Uwe; Ahn, Sung-Min Nature Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3675	journal	June 2013
Observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-driven dynamics in ultrathin metallic ferromagnets Woo, Seonghoon; Litzius, Kai; Krüger, Benjamin Nature Materials, Vol. 15, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4593	journal	February 2016
Chiral spin torque at magnetic domain walls Ryu, Kwang-Su; Thomas, Luc; Yang, See-Hun Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.102	journal	June 2013
Current-induced skyrmion dynamics in constricted geometries Iwasaki, Junichi; Mochizuki, Masahito; Nagaosa, Naoto Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.176	journal	September 2013
Topological properties and dynamics of magnetic skyrmions Nagaosa, Naoto; Tokura, Yoshinori Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.243	journal	December 2013
Skyrmions on the track Fert, Albert; Cros, Vincent; Sampaio, João Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.29	journal	March 2013
Room-temperature chiral magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin magnetic nanostructures Boulle, Olivier; Vogel, Jan; Yang, Hongxin Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 11, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.315	journal	January 2016
Emergent electrodynamics of skyrmions in a chiral magnet Schulz, T.; Ritz, R.; Bauer, A. Nature Physics, Vol. 8, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2231	journal	February 2012
Linear relation between Heisenberg exchange and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in metal films Nembach, Hans T.; Shaw, Justin M.; Weiler, Mathias Nature Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3418	journal	August 2015
Observation of frequency band gaps in a one-dimensional nanostructured magnonic crystal Wang, Z. K.; Zhang, V. L.; Lim, H. S. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3089839	journal	February 2009
Asymmetric spin-wave dispersion due to Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in an ultrathin Pt/CoFeB film Di, Kai; Zhang, Vanessa Li; Lim, Hock Siah Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4907173	journal	February 2015
Room temperature skyrmion ground state stabilized through interlayer exchange coupling Chen, Gong; Mascaraque, Arantzazu; N'Diaye, Alpha T. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4922726	journal	June 2015
In-plane angular dependence of the spin-wave nonreciprocity of an ultrathin film with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction Zhang, Vanessa Li; Di, Kai; Lim, Hock Siah Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4926862	journal	July 2015
Improvement of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction by introducing a Ta buffer layer Kim, Nam-Hui; Han, Dong-Soo; Jung, Jinyong Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4932550	journal	October 2015
Depth profile of spin and orbital magnetic moments in a subnanometer Pt film on Co Suzuki, Motohiro; Muraoka, Hiroaki; Inaba, Yuuki Physical Review B, Vol. 72, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.054430	journal	August 2005
Spin-wave propagation in the presence of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction Moon, Jung-Hwan; Seo, Soo-Man; Lee, Kyung-Jin Physical Review B, Vol. 88, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.184404	journal	November 2013
Skyrmion confinement in ultrathin film nanostructures in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction Rohart, S.; Thiaville, A. Physical Review B, Vol. 88, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.184422	journal	November 2013
Magnetization switching through spin-Hall-effect-induced chiral domain wall propagation Yu, Guoqiang; Upadhyaya, Pramey; Wong, Kin L. Physical Review B, Vol. 89, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.104421	journal	March 2014
Role of B diffusion in the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Ta / Co 20 F e 60 B 20 / MgO nanowires Lo Conte, R.; Martinez, E.; Hrabec, A. Physical Review B, Vol. 91, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.014433	journal	January 2015
Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co/AlO x ultrathin films measured by Brillouin light spectroscopy Belmeguenai, Mohamed; Adam, Jean-Paul; Roussigné, Yves Physical Review B, Vol. 91, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.180405	journal	May 2015
Novel Chiral Magnetic Domain Wall Structure in Fe / Ni / Cu ( 001 ) Films Chen, G.; Zhu, J.; Quesada, A. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.177204	journal	April 2013
Chirality-Induced Asymmetric Magnetic Nucleation in Pt / Co / AlO x Ultrathin Microstructures Pizzini, S.; Vogel, J.; Rohart, S. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.047203	journal	July 2014
Direct Observation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in a Pt/Co/Ni Film Di, Kai; Zhang, Vanessa Li; Lim, Hock Siah Physical Review Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.047201	journal	January 2015
Role of Anisotropic Exchange Interactions in Determining the Properties of Spin-Glasses Fert, A.; Levy, Peter M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 44, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.1538	journal	June 1980
Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Magnetic Thin Films and Multilayers Bogdanov, A. N.; Rößler, U. K. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 87, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.037203	journal	June 2001
Writing and Deleting Single Magnetic Skyrmions Romming, N.; Hanneken, C.; Menzel, M. Science, Vol. 341, Issue 6146 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1240573	journal	August 2013
Blowing magnetic skyrmion bubbles Jiang, W.; Upadhyaya, P.; Zhang, W. Science, Vol. 349, Issue 6245 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa1442	journal	June 2015
Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Magnetic Thin Films and Multilayers Bogdanov, A. N.; Rößler, U. K. The American Physical Society https://doi.org/10.17877/de290r-6428	text	January 2001
Current-driven dynamics of chiral ferromagnetic domain walls Emori, Satoru; Bauer, Uwe; Ahn, Sung-Min arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1302.2257	text	January 2013
Skyrmion confinement in ultrathin film nanostructures in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction Rohart, S.; Thiaville, A. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1310.0666	text	January 2013
Current-induced skyrmion dynamics in constricted geometries Iwasaki, Junichi; Mochizuki, Masahito; Nagaosa, Naoto arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1310.1655	text	January 2013
Asymmetric spin-wave dispersion due to Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in an ultrathin Pt/CoFeB film Di, Kai; Zhang, Vanessa Li; Lim, Hock Siah arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1412.3907	text	January 2014
In-plane angular dependence of the spin-wave nonreciprocity of an ultrathin film with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction Zhang, Vanessa Li; Di, Kai; Lim, Hock Siah arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1506.01134	text	January 2015

Cited By (18)

Antiferromagnetic domain wall as spin wave polarizer and retarder Lan, Jin; Yu, Weichao; Xiao, Jiang Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00265-5	journal	August 2017
Robust Formation of Ultrasmall Room-Temperature Neél Skyrmions in Amorphous Ferrimagnets from Atomistic Simulations Ma, Chung Ting; Xie, Yunkun; Sheng, Howard Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46458-4	journal	July 2019
Accelerating, guiding, and compressing skyrmions by defect rails Castell-Queralt, Josep; González-Gómez, Leonardo; Del-Valle, Nuria Nanoscale, Vol. 11, Issue 26 https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nr02171j	journal	January 2019
Field-free spin-orbit torque switching of a perpendicular ferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction Chen, BingJin; Lourembam, James; Goolaup, Sarjoosing Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5052194	journal	January 2019
Pt concentration dependence of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction, the Gilbert damping parameter and the magnetic anisotropy in Py/Cu _1−x Pt _x systems Bouloussa, H.; Ramaswamy, R.; Roussigné, Y. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 52, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aaef55	journal	November 2018
Dependence of Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction on Layer Thicknesses in Ta / Co − Fe − B / TaO x Heterostructures from Brillouin Light Scattering Chaurasiya, Avinash Kumar; Choudhury, Samiran; Sinha, Jaivardhan Physical Review Applied, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.9.014008	journal	January 2018
Effects of spatially engineered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in ferromagnetic films Mulkers, Jeroen; Van Waeyenberge, Bartel; Milošević, Milorad V. Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.95.144401	journal	April 2017
Direct observation of unusual interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in graphene/NiFe/Ta heterostructures Chaurasiya, Avinash Kumar; Kumar, Akash; Gupta, Rahul Physical Review B, Vol. 99, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.99.035402	journal	January 2019
Domain-wall motion and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in Pt / Co / Ir ( t Ir ) / Ta multilayers Shahbazi, Kowsar; Kim, Joo-Von; Nembach, Hans T. Physical Review B, Vol. 99, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.99.094409	journal	March 2019
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction across an Antiferromagnet-Ferromagnet Interface Ma, Xin; Yu, Guoqiang; Razavi, Seyed A. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.119.027202	journal	July 2017
Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction: Effect of 5 d Band Filling and Correlation with Spin Mixing Conductance Ma, Xin; Yu, Guoqiang; Tang, Chi Physical Review Letters, Vol. 120, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.120.157204	journal	April 2018
Theory of the Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Rashba Antiferromagnets Qaiumzadeh, Alireza; Ado, Ivan A.; Duine, Rembert A. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 120, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.120.197202	journal	May 2018
Asymmetric and Symmetric Exchange in a Generalized 2D Rashba Ferromagnet Ado, I. A.; Qaiumzadeh, A.; Duine, R. A. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 121, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.121.086802	journal	August 2018
Spin–Orbit Torques in Metallic Magnetic Multilayers: Challenges and New Opportunities Wang, Tao; Xiao, John Q.; Fan, Xin SPIN, Vol. 07, Issue 03 https://doi.org/10.1142/s2010324717400136	journal	September 2017
Current-Induced Domain Wall Motion and Tilting in Perpendicularly Magnetized Racetracks Li, Dong; Cui, Baoshan; Yun, Jijun Nanoscale Research Letters, Vol. 13, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-018-2655-6	journal	August 2018
Effects of spatially engineered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in ferromagnetic films Mulkers, Jeroen; Van Waeyenberge, Bartel; Milošević, Milorad V. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1704.00770	text	January 2017
Asymmetric and symmetric exchange in a generalized 2D Rashba ferromagnet Ado, I. A.; Qaiumzadeh, A.; Duine, R. A. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1804.03739	text	January 2018
Accelerating, guiding, and compressing skyrmions by defect rails Castell-Queralt, Josep; González-Gómez, Leonardo G.; Del-Valle, Nuria arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1808.09689	text	January 2018

Similar Records

Asymmetric spin-wave dispersion due to Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in an ultrathin Pt/CoFeB film

Journal Article · Sun Feb 01 23:00:00 EST 2015 · Applied Physics Letters · OSTI ID:22420255

Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction: Effect of $5d$ Band Filling and Correlation with Spin Mixing Conductance

Journal Article · Fri Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review Letters · OSTI ID:1470356

Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction of antiferromagnetic materials

Journal Article · Mon Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 2020 · Physical Review. B · OSTI ID:1851739

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
phonons
spin dynamics
spintronics
thermal conductivity
thermoelectric

Interfacial control of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in heavy metal/ferromagnetic metal thin film heterostructures

Citation Formats

References (38)

Cited By (18)

Similar Records

Related Subjects