Skyrmions in magnetic tunnel junctions
arXiv:1803.05138 · doi:10.1021/acsami.8b03812
Abstract
In this work, we demonstrate that skyrmions can be nucleated in the free layer of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) by a spin-polarized current with the assistance of stray fields from the pinned layer. The size, stability and number of created skyrmions can be tuned by either the DMI strength or the stray field distribution. The interaction between the stray field and the DMI effective field is discussed. A device with multi-level tunneling magnetoresistance is proposed, which could pave the ways for skyrmion-MTJ-based multi-bit storage and artificial neural network computation. Our results may facilitate the efficient nucleation and electrical detection of skyrmions.
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