Inducing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in symmetrical multilayers using post annealing.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
13 Jul 2022
Historique:
received: 06 04 2022
accepted: 07 07 2022
entrez: 13 7 2022
pubmed: 14 7 2022
medline: 14 7 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (iDMI) is an antisymmetric exchange interaction that is induced by the broken inversion symmetry at the interface of, e.g., a ferromagnet/heavy metal. Thus, the presence of iDMI is not expected in symmetrical multilayer stacks of such structures. Here, we use thermal annealing to induce the iDMI in a [Py/Pt]

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pubmed: 35831478
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-16244-w
pii: 10.1038/s41598-022-16244-w
pmc: PMC9427985
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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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11877

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© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Khadijeh Ahmadi (K)

Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran, 19839, Iran.
Advanced Magnetic Materials Research Center, School of Metallurgy and Materials, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, 11155 4563, Iran.

Farzad Mahfouzi (F)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, 91330-8268, USA.

Loghman Jamilpanah (L)

Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran, 19839, Iran.

Morteza Mohseni (M)

Fachbereich Physik and Landesforschungszentrum OPTIMAS, Technische Universit¨at Kaiserslautern, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Tobias Böttcher (T)

Fachbereich Physik and Landesforschungszentrum OPTIMAS, Technische Universit¨at Kaiserslautern, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Philipp Pirro (P)

Fachbereich Physik and Landesforschungszentrum OPTIMAS, Technische Universit¨at Kaiserslautern, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Nicholas Kioussis (N)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, 91330-8268, USA.

Johan Åkerman (J)

Materials Physics, School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Electrum 229, 164 40, Kista, Sweden.
Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, 412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.

S A Seyyed Ebrahimi (SA)

Advanced Magnetic Materials Research Center, School of Metallurgy and Materials, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, 11155 4563, Iran.

Seyed Majid Mohseni (SM)

Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran, 19839, Iran. m-mohseni@sbu.ac.ir.

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