Interface-induced phenomena in magnetism

F Hellman, A Hoffmann, Y Tserkovnyak… - Reviews of modern …, 2017 - APS
This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on
interfacially driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and …

Skyrmions in magnetic multilayers

W Jiang, G Chen, K Liu, J Zang, SGE Te Velthuis… - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Symmetry breaking together with strong spin–orbit interaction gives rise to many exciting
phenomena within condensed matter physics. A recent example is the existence of chiral …

Blowing magnetic skyrmion bubbles

W Jiang, P Upadhyaya, W Zhang, G Yu… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The formation of soap bubbles from thin films is accompanied by topological transitions.
Here we show how a magnetic topological structure, a skyrmion bubble, can be generated …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic skyrmion logic gates: conversion, duplication and merging of skyrmions

X Zhang, M Ezawa, Y Zhou - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have
attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as …

Skyrmion-electronics: An overview and outlook

W Kang, Y Huang, X Zhang, Y Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The well-known empirical phenomenon known as Moore's Law has held true for the past
half century. However, it is beginning to break down, owing to limitations arising from …

Opportunities at the frontiers of spintronics

A Hoffmann, SD Bader - Physical Review Applied, 2015 - APS
The field of spintronics, or magnetic electronics, is maturing and giving rise to new subfields.
These new directions involve the study of collective spin excitations and couplings of the …

A centrosymmetric hexagonal magnet with superstable biskyrmion magnetic nanodomains in a wide temperature range of 100K to 340K

W Wang, Y Zhang, G Xu, L Peng, B Ding… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Here, we report on the experimental discovery of biskyrmion magnetic nanodomains at RT
and the observation of a biskyrmion-derived topological Hall effect (THE) in the …

[HTML][HTML] Room temperature skyrmion ground state stabilized through interlayer exchange coupling

G Chen, A Mascaraque, AK Schmid - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Possible magnetic skyrmion device applications motivate the search for structures that
extend the stability of skyrmion spin textures to ambient temperature. Here, we demonstrate …

Realization of ground-state artificial skyrmion lattices at room temperature

DA Gilbert, BB Maranville, AL Balk, BJ Kirby… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The topological nature of magnetic skyrmions leads to extraordinary properties that provide
new insights into fundamental problems of magnetism and exciting potentials for novel …

Uniaxial stress control of skyrmion phase

Y Nii, T Nakajima, A Kikkawa, Y Yamasaki… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions, swirling nanometric spin textures, have been attracting increasing
attention by virtue of their potential applications for future memory technology and their …