TY - JOUR
AU - Kammerbauer, Fabian
AU - Choi, Won-Young
AU - Freimuth, Frank
AU - Lee, Kyujoon
AU - Frömter, Robert
AU - Han, Dong-Soo
AU - Lavrijsen, Reinoud
AU - Swagten, Henk J. M.
AU - Mokrousov, Yuriy
AU - Kläui, Mathias
TI - Controlling the Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction by Electrical Currents
JO - Nano letters
VL - 23
IS - 15
SN - 1530-6984
CY - Washington, DC
PB - ACS Publ.
M1 - FZJ-2024-02846
SP - 7070 - 7075
PY - 2023
AB - The recently discovered interlayer Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (IL-DMI) in multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy favors canting of spins in the in-plane direction. It could thus stabilize intriguing spin textures such as Hopfions. A key requirement for nucleation is to control the IL-DMI. Therefore, we investigate the influence of an electric current on a synthetic antiferromagnet with growth-induced IL-DMI. The IL-DMI is quantified by using out-of-plane hysteresis loops of the anomalous Hall effect while applying a static in-plane magnetic field at varied azimuthal angles. We observe a shift in the azimuthal dependence with an increasing current, which we conclude to originate from the additional in-plane symmetry breaking introduced by the current flow. Fitting the angular dependence, we demonstrate the presence of an additive current-induced term that linearly increases the IL-DMI in the direction of current flow. This opens the possibility of easily manipulating 3D spin textures by currents.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6 - 37466639
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001032199000001
DO - DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01709
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1025383
ER -