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Temperature dependence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Pt/Co/Cu thin film heterostructures
Abstract
Magnetic materials that exhibit chiral domain walls are of great interest for spintronic devices. In this work, we examine the temperature-dependent behavior of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in Pt/Co/Cu thin film heterostructures. We extract the DMI strength, D, from static domain spacing analysis between 300 K and 500 K and compare its temperature dependence to that of the magnetic anisotropy, Ku, and saturation magnetization, Ms. Consistent with expected scaling in thin films, Ms exhibits Bloch-law temperature scaling and Ku scales as Ms2.1±0.1. However, D varies more strongly with temperature than expected, scaling as D∝Ms4.9±0.7, indicating that interfacial DMI is more sensitive to thermal fluctuations than bulk magnetic properties. We suggest that this may be related to the temperature dependence of locally induced magnetic moments in the Pt underlayer and the 3d-5d orbital interactions at the interface. While we observe stable domain widths in the studied temperature range, a strongly temperature dependent DMI may have significant consequences for potential devices based on the chiral domain wall or skyrmion motion.
- Authors:
-
[1];
- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1540227
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1467769
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012371; de-sc0012371
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 113; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- Physics
Citation Formats
Schlotter, Sarah, Agrawal, Parnika, and Beach, Geoffrey S. D. Temperature dependence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Pt/Co/Cu thin film heterostructures. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5038353.
Schlotter, Sarah, Agrawal, Parnika, & Beach, Geoffrey S. D. Temperature dependence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Pt/Co/Cu thin film heterostructures. United States. doi:10.1063/1.5038353.
Schlotter, Sarah, Agrawal, Parnika, and Beach, Geoffrey S. D. Mon .
"Temperature dependence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Pt/Co/Cu thin film heterostructures". United States. doi:10.1063/1.5038353.
@article{osti_1540227,
title = {Temperature dependence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Pt/Co/Cu thin film heterostructures},
author = {Schlotter, Sarah and Agrawal, Parnika and Beach, Geoffrey S. D.},
abstractNote = {Magnetic materials that exhibit chiral domain walls are of great interest for spintronic devices. In this work, we examine the temperature-dependent behavior of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in Pt/Co/Cu thin film heterostructures. We extract the DMI strength, D, from static domain spacing analysis between 300 K and 500 K and compare its temperature dependence to that of the magnetic anisotropy, Ku, and saturation magnetization, Ms. Consistent with expected scaling in thin films, Ms exhibits Bloch-law temperature scaling and Ku scales as Ms2.1±0.1. However, D varies more strongly with temperature than expected, scaling as D∝Ms4.9±0.7, indicating that interfacial DMI is more sensitive to thermal fluctuations than bulk magnetic properties. We suggest that this may be related to the temperature dependence of locally induced magnetic moments in the Pt underlayer and the 3d-5d orbital interactions at the interface. While we observe stable domain widths in the studied temperature range, a strongly temperature dependent DMI may have significant consequences for potential devices based on the chiral domain wall or skyrmion motion.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5038353},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 9,
volume = 113,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {8}
}
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