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Title: Generation of magnetic skyrmion bubbles by inhomogeneous spin Hall currents

Abstract

Recent experiments have shown that magnetic skyrmion bubbles can be generated and injected at room temperature in thin films. In this study, we demonstrate, using micromagnetic modeling, that such skyrmions can be generated by an inhomogeneous spin Hall torque in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMIs). In the experimental Ta-Co 20Fe 60B 20 thin films, the DMI is rather small; nevertheless, the skyrmion bubbles are stable, or at least metastable on observational time scales.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [2]
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL (United States)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
OSTI Identifier:
1339301
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1240477
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; skyrmions; spin-Hall current

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Heinonen, Olle, Jiang, Wanjun, Somaily, Hamoud, te Velthuis, Suzanne G. E., and Hoffmann, Axel. Generation of magnetic skyrmion bubbles by inhomogeneous spin Hall currents. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.094407.
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Heinonen, Olle, Jiang, Wanjun, Somaily, Hamoud, te Velthuis, Suzanne G. E., & Hoffmann, Axel. Generation of magnetic skyrmion bubbles by inhomogeneous spin Hall currents. United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.094407.
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Heinonen, Olle, Jiang, Wanjun, Somaily, Hamoud, te Velthuis, Suzanne G. E., and Hoffmann, Axel. Mon . "Generation of magnetic skyrmion bubbles by inhomogeneous spin Hall currents". United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.094407. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1339301.
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@article{osti_1339301,
title = {Generation of magnetic skyrmion bubbles by inhomogeneous spin Hall currents},
author = {Heinonen, Olle and Jiang, Wanjun and Somaily, Hamoud and te Velthuis, Suzanne G. E. and Hoffmann, Axel},
abstractNote = {Recent experiments have shown that magnetic skyrmion bubbles can be generated and injected at room temperature in thin films. In this study, we demonstrate, using micromagnetic modeling, that such skyrmions can be generated by an inhomogeneous spin Hall torque in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMIs). In the experimental Ta-Co20Fe60B20 thin films, the DMI is rather small; nevertheless, the skyrmion bubbles are stable, or at least metastable on observational time scales.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.93.094407},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 9,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {3}
}
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