Towards control of the size and helicity of skyrmions in helimagnetic alloys by spin-orbit coupling

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 723-728

  Shibata, K ^a   Yu, X Z ^b   Hara, T ^c   Morikawa, D ^b   Kanazawa, N ^a   Kimoto, K ^c   Ishiwata, S ^a   Matsui, Y ^c   Tokura, Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETISM;

CONDENSED MATTER; CONVERGENT BEAM ELECTRON DIFFRACTION (CBED); CRYSTAL CHIRALITY; LORENTZ TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC HELICITY; SKYRMION LATTICES; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

CHIRALITY;

ALLOY; GERMANIUM; IRON; MANGANESE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNET; MAGNETISM; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKYRMION HELICITY; SPIN ORBIT COUPLING; STRENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84885482460     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.174     Document Type: Article

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