Additive interfacial chiral interaction in multilayers for stabilization of small individual skyrmions at room temperature

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 444-448

  Moreau Luchaire, C ^a   Moutafis, C ^b,c   Reyren, N ^a   Sampaio, J ^a,f   Vaz, C A F ^b   Van Horne, N ^a   Bouzehouane, K ^a   Garcia, K ^a   Deranlot, C ^a   Warnicke, P ^b   Wohlhuter P ^b,d   George, J M ^a   Weigand, M ^e   Raabe, J ^b   Cros, V ^a   Fert, A ^a  

^a UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; COBALT; DIGITAL STORAGE; FILM PREPARATION; HEAVY METALS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; NANOMAGNETICS; TEXTURES;

COBALT LAYERS; DEVICE APPLICATION; DZYALOSHINSKII-MORIYA INTERACTION; GROWING DEMAND; MULTILAYERED THIN FILMS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPIN TEXTURES; X-RAY TRANSMISSION MICROSCOPIES;

MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS;

COBALT; HEAVY METAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION;

EID: 84954540136     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.313     Document Type: Article

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