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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 10: Non-Skyrmionic Magnetic Textures

MA 10.2: Talk

Monday, September 5, 2022, 15:30–15:45, H47

High-Resolution Magnetic Imaging of Surface Magnetic Textures in Synthetic Antiferromagnets Using SEMPA — •Mona Bhukta, Takaaki Dohi, M-A. Syskaki, Robert Frömter, and Mathias Kläui — Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudingerweg 7, 55128 Mainz, Germany

Magnetic skyrmions[1] are twisted spin configurations, which shows a non-zero skyrmion Hall angle when driven by current due to their topological nature[2], which is detrimental for applications. Skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnet(SAFs), could suppress this effect owing to an overall zero topological charge. Recent observations of skyrmions in SAFs have opened the possibility for using skyrmions as a candidate for logic operations, data storage devices[3]. Here, we investigate different, more exotic spin textures in a SAF consisting of (CoFeB/Ir/CoFeB)n by using scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA). The unique feature of SEMPA is especially effective on a SAFs enabling us to investigate the topological spin textures even in a fully compensated composition. We report high-resolved vortex-antivortex pairs in the SAF that are stable at zero magnetic fields and room temperature. Micromagnetic simulations of the investigated SAF stacks have been carried out to understand the way stabilize for these exotic spin textures as well as to explore the possible emergence of three-dimensional (3D) spin structures in the SAF multilayer system. [1] K. Everschor-Sitte et al., J. Appl. Phys. 124, 240901 (2018) [2] K. Litzius et al., Nat. Phys. 13, 170 (2017). [3] T. Dohi et al, Nat. Commun. 10, 5153 (2019).