Electrical detection of magnetic skyrmyons in a magnetic tunnel junction
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Yao Guang, Like Zhang, Junwei Zhang, Yadong Wang, Yuelei Zhao, Riccardo Tomasello, Senfu Zhang, Bin He, Jiahui Li, Yizhou Liu, Jiafeng Feng, Hongxiang Wei, Mario Carpentieri, Zhipeng Hou, Junming Liu, Yong Peng, Zhongming Zeng, Giovanni Finocchio, Xixiang Zhang, John Michael David Coey, Xiufeng Han, and Guoqiang Yu, Electrical detection of magnetic skyrmyons in a magnetic tunnel junction, Advanced Electronic Materials, 9, 2022, 2200570Download Item:
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Magnetic skyrmions are promising information carriers for dense and energy-efficient information storage owing to their small size, low driving-current density, and topological stability. Electrical detection of skyrmions is a crucial requirement to drive skyrmion devices toward applications. The use of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is commonly suggested for this purpose as MTJs are key spintronic devices for large-scale commercialization that can convert magnetic textures into electrical signals. To date, however, it has been challenging to realize skyrmions in MTJs due to incompatibility between standard skyrmion materials and highly efficient MTJ electrodes. Here, a material stack combining magnetic multilayers, which host 100 nm scale skyrmions, with a perpendicularly magnetized MTJ, is reported. The devices are designed so that the skyrmions in the multilayer are imprinted into the MTJ's free layer via magnetostatic interactions. The electrical response of a single skyrmion is successfully identified by employing simultaneous imaging of the magnetic texture and the electrical measurement of the MTJ resistance. The results are an important step toward all-electrical detection of skyrmions.
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Science Foundation of China
Z190009
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
16/IA/4534 ZEMS, 12/RC/2278 AMBER
National Natural Science Foundation of China (60703033).
11874409, 52161160334, 12174426
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Author: Venkatesan, Munuswamy; Coey, John
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Advanced Electronic Materials;9;
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electron beam lithography, magnetic skyrmions, magnetic tunnel junction, skyrmion lattice, transmission electron microscopySubject (TCD):
Applied physics , Condensed matter, electronic, magnetic and superconductive properties , Magnetism and spin electronics , NanotechnologyDOI:
10.1002/aelm.202200570Source URI:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/aelm.202200570ISSN:
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