Fast domain wall motion in magnetic comb structures

Lewis, E. R., Petit, D., O'Brien, L., Fernandez-Pacheco, A., Sampaio, J., Jausovec, A.-V., Zeng, H. T., Read, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4178-4986 and Cowburn, R. P. 2010. Fast domain wall motion in magnetic comb structures. Nature Materials 9 (12) , pp. 980-983. 10.1038/nmat2857

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Abstract

Modern fabrication technology has enabled the study of submicron ferromagnetic strips with a particularly simple domain structure, allowing single, well-defined domain walls to be isolated and characterized. However, these domain walls have complex field-driven dynamics. The wall velocity initially increases with field, but above a certain threshold the domain wall abruptly slows down, accompanied by periodic transformations of the domain wall structure. This behaviour is potentially detrimental to the speed and proper functioning of proposed domain-wall-based devices1, 2, 3, and although methods for suppression of the breakdown have been demonstrated in simulations4, 5, a convincing experimental demonstration is lacking. Here, we show experimentally that a series of cross-shaped traps acts to prevent transformations of the domain wall structure and increase the domain wall velocity by a factor of four compared to the maximum velocity on a plain strip. Our results suggest a route to faster and more reliable domain wall devices for memory, logic and sensing.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Electronic materials; Magnetic materials
Publisher:	NPG
ISSN:	1476-1122
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2022 10:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/7341

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