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Title: Chirality-induced zigzag domain wall in in-plane magnetized ultrathin films

Abstract

In this report the domain structure in in-plane magnetized Fe/Ni/W(110) films is investigated using spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy. A novel transition of the domain wall shape from a zigzaglike pattern to straight is observed as a function of the film thickness, which is triggered by the transition of the domain wall type from the out-of-plane chiral wall to the in-plane Néel wall. The contribution of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction to the wall energy is proposed to explain the transition of the domain wall shape, which is supported by Monte Carlo simulations.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6]
  1. Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  3. Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
  4. Kyung Hee Univ., Seoul (South Korea)
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  6. Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1864174
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; DMR-2005108
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 39; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0734-2101
Publisher:
American Vacuum Society / AIP
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; thin films; antisymmetric exchange; Monte Carlo methods; chirality; magnetic anisotropy; spintronics; magnetic ordering

Citation Formats

Chen, Gong, Robertson, MacCallum, Kwon, Heeyoung, Won, Changyeon, Schmid, Andreas K., and Liu, Kai. Chirality-induced zigzag domain wall in in-plane magnetized ultrathin films. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1116/6.0001170.
Chen, Gong, Robertson, MacCallum, Kwon, Heeyoung, Won, Changyeon, Schmid, Andreas K., & Liu, Kai. Chirality-induced zigzag domain wall in in-plane magnetized ultrathin films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0001170
Chen, Gong, Robertson, MacCallum, Kwon, Heeyoung, Won, Changyeon, Schmid, Andreas K., and Liu, Kai. Wed . "Chirality-induced zigzag domain wall in in-plane magnetized ultrathin films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0001170. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1864174.
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title = {Chirality-induced zigzag domain wall in in-plane magnetized ultrathin films},
author = {Chen, Gong and Robertson, MacCallum and Kwon, Heeyoung and Won, Changyeon and Schmid, Andreas K. and Liu, Kai},
abstractNote = {In this report the domain structure in in-plane magnetized Fe/Ni/W(110) films is investigated using spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy. A novel transition of the domain wall shape from a zigzaglike pattern to straight is observed as a function of the film thickness, which is triggered by the transition of the domain wall type from the out-of-plane chiral wall to the in-plane Néel wall. The contribution of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction to the wall energy is proposed to explain the transition of the domain wall shape, which is supported by Monte Carlo simulations.},
doi = {10.1116/6.0001170},
journal = {Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A},
number = 5,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Wed Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
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