%0 Conference Paper
%A Montanez Huaman, Liz Margarita
%A Kentzinger, Emmanuel
%A Cortie, David
%A Ahrens, Valentin
%A Guasco, Laura
%A Keller, Thomas
%A Skoulatos, Markos
%A Becherer, Markus
%A Pütter, Sabine
%T Room Temperature Skyrmions in Pt/Co/Ta multilayers
%M FZJ-2023-05284
%D 2023
%X Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stabilized spin configurations on the nanoscale which makes them promising for next-generation information storage technologies and computing. [1,2] In magnetic multilay- ers, they can be stabilized at room temperature [3]. Skyrmions emerge due to an interplay between several magnetic contributions. Among them the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) drives the spins into non-collinear orientation, while the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) favours the out-of-plane orientation and the shape anisotropy prefers in-plane spin orientation. Polycrystalline[Pt(40Å)/Co(x)/Ta(19Å)]N multilayerswerefabricatedinamolecularbeamepitaxysetupby thermal deposition on oxidized Si(001) substrates with a buffer layer of 47 Å Ta and a 30 Å Pt cap layer. The Co film thickness was varied between 5 Å and 21 Å, the number of repetitions varied between 8 and 10. Mag- netic force microscopy measurements reveal the existence of skyrmions at a Co thickness between 9 Å and 17 Å. We discuss results obtained from magnetic hysteresis, transport and neutron reflectometry measurements. The latter have been performed with the neutron reflectometer Platypus at ANSTO, Australia.References[1] A. Fert, V. Cros, and J. Sampaio, Nature Nanotech 8, (2013) 152.[2] K. Raab, M.A. Brems, G. Beneke, et al., Nat Commun 13, (2022) 6982.[3] S. Woo, K. Litzius, B. Krüger, M.-Y. Im, L. Caretta, K. Richter et al., Nat. Mat. 15 (2016) 501
%B MLZ User Meeting
%C 4 Dec 2023 - 5 Dec 2023, München (Germany)
Y2 4 Dec 2023 - 5 Dec 2023
M2 München, Germany
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)6
%9 Conference Presentation
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1019310