Room temperature skyrmion ground state stabilized through interlayer exchange coupling

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 24, 2015, Pages

  Chen, Gong ^a   Mascaraque, Arantzazu ^b,c   N'Diaye, Alpha T ^a   Schmid, Andreas K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; EXCHANGE COUPLING; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MAGNETISM; TEXTURES;

CARTESIAN COMPONENTS; COPPER SPACER LAYER; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; INTERLAYER EXCHANGE COUPLING; MAGNETIZATION VECTOR; NONMAGNETIC SPACER; SPIN-POLARIZED LOW ENERGY ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; SPINTRONICS DEVICE;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 84933515652     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4922726     Document Type: Article

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