Oersted Field and Spin Current Effects on Magnetic Domains in [Co/Pd]
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Chen, Jingsheng; Ho, Pin; Zhang, Jinshuo; Bono, David C; Ross, Caroline A
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An out-of-plane Oersted field produced from a current-carrying Au wire is used to induce local domain formation in wires made from [Co/Pd][subscript 15] multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy. A 100 ns pulsed current of 56-110 mA injected into the Au wire created a reverse domain size of 120-290 nm in a Co/Pd nanowire on one side of the Au wire. A Biot-Savart model was used to estimate the position dependence of the Oersted field around the Au wire. The shape, size, and location of the reversed region of Co/Pd were consistent with the magnitude of the Oersted field and the switching field distribution of the unpatterned film. A current density of 6.2 × 10[superscript 11] Am[superscript -2] in the Co/Pd nanowire did not translate the domain walls due to low spin transfer efficiency, but the Joule heating promoted domain growth in a field below the coercive field.
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2016-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and EngineeringJournal
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Ho, Pin, Jinshuo Zhang, David C. Bono, Jingsheng Chen, and Caroline A. Ross. “Oersted Field and Spin Current Effects on Magnetic Domains in [Co/Pd]15Nanowires.” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 52, no. 6 (June 2016): 1–6 © Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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0018-9464
1941-0069