Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field

Concepts for information storage and logical processing based on magnetic domain walls have great potential for implementation in future information and communications technologies. To date, the need to apply power hungry magnetic fields or heat dissipating spin polarized currents to manipulate magn...

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Main Authors:	Beardsley, R.P., Bowe, S., Parkes, D.E., Reardon, C., Edmonds, K.W., Gallagher, B.L., Cavill, S.A., Rushforth, A.W.
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Language:	English
Published:	Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:	http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/7/Beardsley.pdf

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spelling	nottingham-447212018-06-26T12:41:13Z http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/ Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field Beardsley, R.P. Bowe, S. Parkes, D.E. Reardon, C. Edmonds, K.W. Gallagher, B.L. Cavill, S.A. Rushforth, A.W. Concepts for information storage and logical processing based on magnetic domain walls have great potential for implementation in future information and communications technologies. To date, the need to apply power hungry magnetic fields or heat dissipating spin polarized currents to manipulate magnetic domain walls has limited the development of such technologies. The possibility of controlling magnetic domain walls using voltages offers an energy efficient route to overcome these limitations. Here we show that a voltage-induced uniaxial strain induces reversible deterministic switching of the chirality of a magnetic vortex wall. We discuss how this functionality will be applicable to schemes for information storage and logical processing, making a significant step towards the practical implementation of magnetic domain walls in energy efficient computing. Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/7/Beardsley.pdf Beardsley, R.P. and Bowe, S. and Parkes, D.E. and Reardon, C. and Edmonds, K.W. and Gallagher, B.L. and Cavill, S.A. and Rushforth, A.W. (2017) Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field. Scientific Reports, 7 . 7613/1-7613/6. ISSN 2045-2322 (In Press) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07944-9 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-07944-9 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-07944-9
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description	Concepts for information storage and logical processing based on magnetic domain walls have great potential for implementation in future information and communications technologies. To date, the need to apply power hungry magnetic fields or heat dissipating spin polarized currents to manipulate magnetic domain walls has limited the development of such technologies. The possibility of controlling magnetic domain walls using voltages offers an energy efficient route to overcome these limitations. Here we show that a voltage-induced uniaxial strain induces reversible deterministic switching of the chirality of a magnetic vortex wall. We discuss how this functionality will be applicable to schemes for information storage and logical processing, making a significant step towards the practical implementation of magnetic domain walls in energy efficient computing.
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author	Beardsley, R.P. Bowe, S. Parkes, D.E. Reardon, C. Edmonds, K.W. Gallagher, B.L. Cavill, S.A. Rushforth, A.W.
spellingShingle	Beardsley, R.P. Bowe, S. Parkes, D.E. Reardon, C. Edmonds, K.W. Gallagher, B.L. Cavill, S.A. Rushforth, A.W. Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field
author_facet	Beardsley, R.P. Bowe, S. Parkes, D.E. Reardon, C. Edmonds, K.W. Gallagher, B.L. Cavill, S.A. Rushforth, A.W.
author_sort	Beardsley, R.P.
title	Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field
title_short	Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field
title_full	Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field
title_fullStr	Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field
title_full_unstemmed	Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field
title_sort	deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field
publisher	Nature Publishing Group
publishDate	2017
url	http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44721/7/Beardsley.pdf
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Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field

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