Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Microwave resonances of magnetic skyrmions in thin film multilayers

  • Bhartendu Satywali,
  • Volodymyr P. Kravchuk,
  • Liqing Pan,
  • M. Raju,
  • Shikun He,
  • Fusheng Ma,
  • A. P. Petrović,
  • Markus Garst,
  • Christos Panagopoulos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22220-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The dynamic properties of Néel skyrmions in magnetic thin films have remained elusive. Here, the authors report distinct resonances in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt heterostructures whose frequencies vary with the skyrmion configuration and multilayer architecture, thus opening a path to microwave applications.