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Lorenzo Camosi
Postdoctoral Researcher
COFUND PROBIST
lorenzo.camosi(ELIMINAR)@icn2.cat
Physics and Engineering of Nanodevices
- ORCID: 0000-0002-1564-8278
Publications
2021
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Self-organised stripe domains and elliptical skyrmion bubbles in ultra-thin epitaxial Au0.67Pt0.33/Co/W(110) films
Camosi L., Garcia J.P., Fruchart O., Pizzini S., Locatelli A., Menteş T.O., Genuzio F., Shaw J.M., Nembach H.T., Vogel J. New Journal of Physics; 23 (1, 013020) 2021. 10.1088/1367-2630/abdbe0. IF: 3.593
We studied the symmetry of magnetic properties and the resulting magnetic textures in ultra-thin epitaxial Au0.67Pt0.33/Co/W(110), a model system exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and interface Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). As a peculiar feature, the C2v crystal symmetry induced by the Co/W interface results in an additional uniaxial in-plane magnetic anisotropy in the cobalt layer. Photo-emission electron microscopy with magnetic sensitivity reveals the formation of self-organised magnetic stripe domains oriented parallel to the hard in-plane magnetisation axis. We attribute this behavior to the lower domain wall energy when oriented along this axis, where both the DMI and the in-plane magnetic anisotropy favor a Néel domain wall configuration. The anisotropic domain wall energy also leads to the formation of elliptical skyrmion bubbles under a weak out-of-plane magnetic field. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft