Nature Communications (Feb 2020)
Creating zero-field skyrmions in exchange-biased multilayers through X-ray illumination
- Yao Guang,
- Iuliia Bykova,
- Yizhou Liu,
- Guoqiang Yu,
- Eberhard Goering,
- Markus Weigand,
- Joachim Gräfe,
- Se Kwon Kim,
- Junwei Zhang,
- Hong Zhang,
- Zhengren Yan,
- Caihua Wan,
- Jiafeng Feng,
- Xiao Wang,
- Chenyang Guo,
- Hongxiang Wei,
- Yong Peng,
- Yaroslav Tserkovnyak,
- Xiufeng Han,
- Gisela Schütz
Affiliations
- Yao Guang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Iuliia Bykova
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- Yizhou Liu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guoqiang Yu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Eberhard Goering
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- Markus Weigand
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- Joachim Gräfe
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- Se Kwon Kim
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California
- Junwei Zhang
- Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University
- Hong Zhang
- Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University
- Zhengren Yan
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Caihua Wan
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jiafeng Feng
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xiao Wang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chenyang Guo
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hongxiang Wei
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yong Peng
- Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University
- Yaroslav Tserkovnyak
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California
- Xiufeng Han
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Gisela Schütz
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14769-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
Skyrmions are objects with whirled magnetization protected by their topology that can be created by different means, however, without control of their position. Here, the authors present a method exploiting x-rays to create skyrmions at the beam position allowing for creation of artificial skyrmion lattices.
