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most citedRoom-temperature current-induced generation and motion of sub-100nm skyrmions

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14 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 84 cited

Current-induced spin torques on single GdFeCo magnetic layers

David Céspedes-Berrocal, Heloïse Damas, Sébastien Petit-Watelot +16

Spintronics exploits spin-orbit coupling (SOC) to generate spin currents, spin torques, and, in the absence of inversion symmetry, Rashba, and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (D…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 30 cited

Quantitative imaging of hybrid chiral spin textures in magnetic multilayer systems by Lorentz microscopy

K. Fallon, S. McVitie, W. Legrand +5

Chiral magnetic textures in ultrathin perpendicularly magnetised multilayer film stacks with an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction have been the focus of much research r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 62 cited

Engineering Large Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Films at Room Temperature

Paolo Perna, Davide Maccariello, Fernando Ajejas +6

The magnetoresistance (MR) effect is widely employed in technologies that pervade our world from magnetic reading heads to sensors. Diverse contributions to MR, such as anisotropic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 56 cited

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction at disordered interfaces from ab initio theory: robustness against intermixing and tunability through dusting

Bernd Zimmermann, William Legrand, Davide Maccariello +4

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which is essential for the stabilization of topologically non-trivial chiral magnetic textures such as skyrmions, is particularly stron…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 40 cited

Modeling the shape of axisymmetric skyrmions in magnetic multilayers

William Legrand, Nathan Ronceray, Nicolas Reyren +3

We present a comprehensive micromagnetic model of isolated axisymmetric skyrmions in magnetic multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy. Most notably, the essential role of the int…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 249 cited

Hybrid chiral domain walls and skyrmions in magnetic multilayers

William Legrand, Jean-Yves Chauleau, Davide Maccariello +6

Noncollinear spin textures in ferromagnetic ultrathin films are currently the subject of renewed interest since the discovery of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 9 cited

Interfacial exchange coupling induced chiral symmetry-breaking of Spin-Orbit effects

P. Perna, F. Ajejas, D. Maccariello +6

We demonstrate that the interfacial exchange coupling in ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic (FM/AFM) systems induces symmetry-breaking of the Spin-Orbit (SO) effects. This has been do…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 61 cited

A transmission electron microscope study of Néel skyrmion magnetic textures in multilayer thin film systems with large interfacial chiral interaction

S. McVitie, S. Hughes, K. Fallon +12

Skyrmions in ultrathin ferromagnetic metal (FM)/heavy metal (HM) multilayer systems produced by conventional sputtering methods have recently generated huge interest due to their a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 76 cited

Chirality in magnetic multilayers probed by the symmetry and the amplitude of dichroism in X-ray resonant magnetic scattering

J. -Y. Chauleau, W. Legrand, N. Reyren +7

Chirality in condensed matter is now a topic of the utmost importance because of its significant role in the understanding and mastering of a large variety of new fundamental physi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 394 cited

Room-temperature current-induced generation and motion of sub-100nm skyrmions

William Legrand, Davide Maccariello, Nicolas Reyren +7

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale windings of the spin configuration that hold great promise for technology due to their topology-related properties and extremely reduced sizes. Aft…

cond-mat.str-el2013★ 57 cited

Persistent photoconductivity in 2-dimensional electron gases at different oxide interfaces

Emiliano Di Gennaro, Umberto Scotti di Uccio, Carmela Aruta +10

We report on the transport characterization in dark and under light irradiation of three different interfaces: LaAlO3/SrTiO3, LaGaO3/SrTiO3, and the novel NdGaO3/SrTiO3 heterostruc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 3 cited

Reversible and Persistent Photoconductivity at the NdGaO3/SrTiO3 Conducting Interface

Umberto Scotti di Uccio, Carmela Aruta, Claudia Cantoni +10

The interface between the band gap insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 is known to host a highly mobile two-dimensional electron gas. Here we report on the fabrication and characterizatio…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 155 cited

Electron transfer and ionic displacements at the origin of the 2D electron gas at the LAO/STO interface: Direct measurements with atomic-column spatial resolution

C. Cantoni, J. Gazquez, F. Miletto Granozio +8

The discovery that the interface between two band gap insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 is highly conducting has raised an enormous interest in the field of oxide electronics. The LAlO3…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 135 cited

Conducting interfaces between band insulating oxides: the LaGaO3/SrTiO3

Paolo Perna, Davide Maccariello, Milan Radovic +9

We show that the growth of the heterostructure LaGaO3/SrTiO3 yields the formation of a highly conductive interface. Our samples were carefully analyzed by high resolution electron…