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X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Altermagnetic α-MnTe (2024)
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Altermagnetism is a recently identified magnetic symmetry class combining characteristics of conventional collinear ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, that were regarded as mutually exclusive, and enabling phenomena and functionalities unparalleled i... Read More about X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Altermagnetic α-MnTe.

Electrical control of 180° domain walls in an antiferromagnet (2023)
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We demonstrate the reversible current-induced motion of 180° antiferromagnetic domain walls in a CuMnAs device. By controlling the magnitude and direction of the current pulse, the position of a domain wall can be switched between three distinct pinn... Read More about Electrical control of 180° domain walls in an antiferromagnet.

Antiferromagnetic half-skyrmions electrically generated and controlled at room temperature (2023)
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Topologically protected magnetic textures are promising candidates for information carriers in future memory devices, as they can be efficiently propelled at very high velocities using current-induced spin torques. These textures—nanoscale whirls in... Read More about Antiferromagnetic half-skyrmions electrically generated and controlled at room temperature.

Probing the manipulation of antiferromagnetic order in CuMnAs films using neutron diffraction (2022)
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We describe measurements of the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy and spin-flop rotation of the Néel vector in antiferromagnetic CuMnAs thin films using neutron diffraction. The suppression of the magnetic (100) peak under magnetic fields is observed for... Read More about Probing the manipulation of antiferromagnetic order in CuMnAs films using neutron diffraction.

Atomically sharp domain walls in an antiferromagnet (2022)
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The interest in understanding scaling limits of magnetic textures such as domain walls spans the entire field of magnetism from its physical fundamentals to applications in information technologies. Here, we explore antiferromagnetic CuMnAs in which... Read More about Atomically sharp domain walls in an antiferromagnet.

Defect-driven antiferromagnetic domain walls in CuMnAs films (2022)
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Efficient manipulation of antiferromagnetic (AF) domains and domain walls has opened up new avenues of research towards ultrafast, high-density spintronic devices. AF domain structures are known to be sensitive to magnetoelastic effects, but the micr... Read More about Defect-driven antiferromagnetic domain walls in CuMnAs films.

Magnetism and magnetoresistance in the critical region of a dilute ferromagnet (2021)
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We present detailed experimental measurements and simulations of the field-dependent magnetization and magnetoresistance in the vicinity of the Curie temperature in the highly disordered dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As. The observed depe... Read More about Magnetism and magnetoresistance in the critical region of a dilute ferromagnet.

Quenching of an antiferromagnet into high resistivity states using electrical or ultrashort optical pulses (2020)
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Antiferromagnets are of potential use in the development of spintronic devices due to their ultrafast dynamics, insensitivity to external magnetic fields and absence of magnetic stray fields. Similar to their ferromagnetic counterparts, antiferromagn... Read More about Quenching of an antiferromagnet into high resistivity states using electrical or ultrashort optical pulses.

Magneto-Seebeck microscopy of domain switching in collinear antiferromagnet CuMnAs (2020)
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Antiferromagnets offer spintronic device characteristics unparalleled in ferromagnets owing to their lack of stray fields, THz spin dynamics, and rich materials landscape. Microscopic imaging of antiferromagnetic domains is one of the key prerequisit... Read More about Magneto-Seebeck microscopy of domain switching in collinear antiferromagnet CuMnAs.

Low-energy switching of antiferromagnetic CuMnAs/GaP using sub-10 nanosecond current pulses (2020)
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The recently discovered electrical-induced switching of antiferromagnetic (AF) materials that have spatial inversion asymmetry has enriched the field of spintronics immensely and opened the door for the concept of antiferromagnetic memory devices. Cu... Read More about Low-energy switching of antiferromagnetic CuMnAs/GaP using sub-10 nanosecond current pulses.

Spin flop and crystalline anisotropic magnetoresistance in CuMnAs (2020)
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We report magnetic-field-induced rotation of the antiferromagnetic Néel vector in epitaxial CuMnAs thin films. First, using soft x-ray magnetic linear dichroism spectroscopy as well as magnetometry, we demonstrate spin-flop switching and continuous s... Read More about Spin flop and crystalline anisotropic magnetoresistance in CuMnAs.

Tuning Interfacial Spins in Antiferromagnetic–Ferromagnetic–Heavy-Metal Heterostructures via Spin-Orbit Torque (2020)
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Antiferromagnets are outstanding candidates for the next generation of spintronic applications, with great potential for downscaling and decreasing power consumption. Recently, the manipulation of bulk properties of antiferromagnets has been realized... Read More about Tuning Interfacial Spins in Antiferromagnetic–Ferromagnetic–Heavy-Metal Heterostructures via Spin-Orbit Torque.

Gating effects in antiferromagnetic CuMnAs (2019)
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Antiferromagnets (AFs) attract much attention due to their potential applications in spintronics. Both the electric current and the electric field are considered as tools suitable to control the properties and the Néel vector direction of AFs. Among... Read More about Gating effects in antiferromagnetic CuMnAs.

Thermal stability of interstitial and substitutional Mn in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As (2019)
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© 2019 American Physical Society. In (Ga,Mn)As, a model dilute magnetic semiconductor, the electric and magnetic properties are strongly influenced by the lattice sites occupied by the Mn atoms. In particular, the highest Curie temperatures are achie... Read More about Thermal stability of interstitial and substitutional Mn in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As.

Spin Logic Devices via Electric Field Controlled Magnetization Reversal by Spin-Orbit Torque (2019)
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We describe a spin logic device with controllable magnetization switching of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnet/heavy metal structures on a ferroelectric (1-x)[Pb(Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3 )O 3 ]-x[PbTiO 3 ] (PMN-PT) substrate using current-induced spin-orbi... Read More about Spin Logic Devices via Electric Field Controlled Magnetization Reversal by Spin-Orbit Torque.

Multilevel information storage using magnetoelastic layer stacks (2019)
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The use of voltages to control magnetisation via the inverse magnetostriction effect in piezoelectric/ferromagnet heterostructures holds promise for ultra-low energy information storage technologies. Epitaxial galfenol, an alloy of iron and gallium,... Read More about Multilevel information storage using magnetoelastic layer stacks.

Adjustable Current-Induced Magnetization Switching Utilizing Interlayer Exchange Coupling (2018)
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© 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Electrical current–induced deterministic magnetization switching in a magnetic multilayer structure without any external magnetic field is realized by utilizing interlayer exchange coupling. Two fer... Read More about Adjustable Current-Induced Magnetization Switching Utilizing Interlayer Exchange Coupling.

Current polarity-dependent manipulation of antiferromagnetic domains (2018)
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Antiferromagnets have several favourable properties as active elements in spintronic devices, including ultra-fast dynamics, zero stray fields and insensitivity to external magnetic fields. Tetragonal CuMnAs is a testbed system in which the antiferro... Read More about Current polarity-dependent manipulation of antiferromagnetic domains.

Switching the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy by ion irradiation induced compensation (2018)
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© 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd. In the present work, the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy of GaMnAsP is modified by helium ion irradiation. According to the micro-magnetic parameters, e.g. resonance fields and anisotropy constants deduced from ferromagnetic r... Read More about Switching the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy by ion irradiation induced compensation.

Control of antiferromagnetic spin axis orientation in bilayer Fe/CuMnAs films (2017)
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Using x-ray magnetic circular and linear dichroism techniques, we demonstrate a collinear exchange coupling between an epitaxial antiferromagnet, tetragonal CuMnAs, and an Fe surface layer. A small uncompensated Mn magnetic moment is observed which i... Read More about Control of antiferromagnetic spin axis orientation in bilayer Fe/CuMnAs films.