Mobile Néel skyrmions at room temperature: status and future
Abstract
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures that exhibit many fascinating features. As compared to the well-studied cryogenic Bloch skyrmions in bulk materials, we focus on the room- temperature Néel skyrmions in thin-film systems with an interfacial broken inversion symmetry in this article. Specifically, we show the stabilization, the creation, and the implementation of Néel skyrmions that are enabled by the electrical current-induced spin-orbit torques. As a result, towards the nanoscale Néel skyrmions, we further discuss the challenges from both material optimization and imaging characterization perspectives.
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- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences and Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1240473
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1339415; OSTI ID: 1421035
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- AIP Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: AIP Advances Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2158-3226
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Jiang, Wanjun, Zhang, Wei, Yu, Guoqiang, Jungfleisch, M. Benjamin, Upadhyaya, Pramey, Somaily, Hamoud, Pearson, John E., Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav, Wang, Kang L., Heinonen, Olle, te Velthuis, Suzanne G. E., and Hoffmann, Axel. Mobile Néel skyrmions at room temperature: status and future. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4943757.
Jiang, Wanjun, Zhang, Wei, Yu, Guoqiang, Jungfleisch, M. Benjamin, Upadhyaya, Pramey, Somaily, Hamoud, Pearson, John E., Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav, Wang, Kang L., Heinonen, Olle, te Velthuis, Suzanne G. E., & Hoffmann, Axel. Mobile Néel skyrmions at room temperature: status and future. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943757
Jiang, Wanjun, Zhang, Wei, Yu, Guoqiang, Jungfleisch, M. Benjamin, Upadhyaya, Pramey, Somaily, Hamoud, Pearson, John E., Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav, Wang, Kang L., Heinonen, Olle, te Velthuis, Suzanne G. E., and Hoffmann, Axel. Sun .
"Mobile Néel skyrmions at room temperature: status and future". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943757.
@article{osti_1240473,
title = {Mobile Néel skyrmions at room temperature: status and future},
author = {Jiang, Wanjun and Zhang, Wei and Yu, Guoqiang and Jungfleisch, M. Benjamin and Upadhyaya, Pramey and Somaily, Hamoud and Pearson, John E. and Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav and Wang, Kang L. and Heinonen, Olle and te Velthuis, Suzanne G. E. and Hoffmann, Axel},
abstractNote = {Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures that exhibit many fascinating features. As compared to the well-studied cryogenic Bloch skyrmions in bulk materials, we focus on the room- temperature Néel skyrmions in thin-film systems with an interfacial broken inversion symmetry in this article. Specifically, we show the stabilization, the creation, and the implementation of Néel skyrmions that are enabled by the electrical current-induced spin-orbit torques. As a result, towards the nanoscale Néel skyrmions, we further discuss the challenges from both material optimization and imaging characterization perspectives.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4943757},
journal = {AIP Advances},
number = 5,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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