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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Applied Année : 2022

Tuning the Dynamics of Chiral Domain Walls of Ferrimagnetic Films by Magnetoionic Effects

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The manipulation of magnetism with a gate voltage is expected to lead the way towards the realization of energy-efficient spintronics devices and high-performance magnetic memories. Exploiting magneto-ionic effects under micro-patterned electrodes in solid-state devices adds the possibility to modify magnetic properties locally, in a non-volatile and reversible way. Tuning magnetic anisotropy, magnetization and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction allows modifying "at will" the dynamics of non trivial magnetic textures such as skyrmions and chiral domain walls in magnetic race tracks. In this work, we illustrate efficient magneto-ionic effects in a ferrimagnetic Pt/Co/Tb/AlOx stack using a ZrO 2 thin layer as a solid state ionic conductor. When a thin layer of terbium is deposited on top of cobalt, it acquires a magnetic moment that aligns antiparallel to that of cobalt, reducing the effective magnetization. Below the micro-patterned electrodes, the voltage-driven migration of oxygen ions in a ZrO 2 towards the ferrimagnetic stack partially oxidizes the Tb layer, leading to the local variation not only of the magnetization, but also of the magnetic anisotropy and of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. This leads to a huge increase of the domain wall velocity, which varies from 10 m/s in the pristine state to 250 m/s after gating. This non-volatile and reversible tuning of the domain wall dynamics may lead to applications to reprogrammable magnetic memories or other spintronic devices.
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hal-03797615 , version 1 (08-10-2022)

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Cristina Balan, Jose Peña Garcia, Aymen Fassatoui, Jan Vogel, Dayane de Souza Chaves, et al.. Tuning the Dynamics of Chiral Domain Walls of Ferrimagnetic Films by Magnetoionic Effects. Physical Review Applied, 2022, 18 (3), pp.034065. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.034065⟩. ⟨hal-03797615⟩
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