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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 27: Skyrmions 2 (joint session MA/KFM)
MA 27.5: Vortrag
Donnerstag, 8. September 2022, 10:30–10:45, H37
Asymmetric magnetization reversal in perpendicularly magnetized micro stripes induced by exchange-bias effect and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction — •Sapida Akhundzada1, Piotr Kuświk2, Christian Janzen1, Arno Ehresmann1, and Michael Vogel1 — 1Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany — 2Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
In a systematic study, the magnetization reversal in exchange-biased Ti/Au/Co/NiO/Au micro stripes with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is characterized using high-resolution magneto-optical Kerr microscopy. Thereby, the remagnetization process is observed to be asymmetric with respect to the two branches of the hysteresis loop, being quantified as a higher nucleation density formed along one field branch with decreasing structure width. Additionally, a local asymmetry in the domain nucleation and domain wall movement within the stripe geometry is observed. The influence of the exchange bias effect and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is investigated by field-cooling and the application of additional in-plane magnetic fields during the magnetization reversal process. XMCD and XMLD experiments reveal the corresponding domain texture in the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic layers. These experiments show how the interplay between chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and the unidirectional anisotropy modify the magnetic domain texture and the resulting magnetization reversal in microstructures.