An Atomically Tailored Chiral Magnet with Small Skyrmions at Room Temperature
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| author | Liu, Tao Selcu, Camelia M. Wang, Binbin Bagués, Núria Wu, Po-Kuan Hartnett, Timothy Q. Cheng, Shuyu Pelekhov, Denis Bennett, Roland A. Corbett, Joseph Perry Repicky, Jacob R. McCullian, Brendan Hammel, P. Chris Gupta, Jay A. Randeria, Mohit Balachandran, Prasanna V. McComb, David W. Kawakami, Roland K. |
| author_facet | Liu, Tao Selcu, Camelia M. Wang, Binbin Bagués, Núria Wu, Po-Kuan Hartnett, Timothy Q. Cheng, Shuyu Pelekhov, Denis Bennett, Roland A. Corbett, Joseph Perry Repicky, Jacob R. McCullian, Brendan Hammel, P. Chris Gupta, Jay A. Randeria, Mohit Balachandran, Prasanna V. McComb, David W. Kawakami, Roland K. |
| contents | Creating materials that do not exist in nature can lead to breakthroughs in science and technology. Magnetic skyrmions are topological excitations that have attracted great attention recently for their potential applications in low power, ultrahigh density memory. A major challenge has been to find materials that meet the dual requirement of small skyrmions stable at room temperature. Here we meet both these goals by developing epitaxial FeGe films with excess Fe using atomic layer molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) far from thermal equilibrium. Our novel atomic layer design permits the incorporation of 20% excess Fe while maintaining a non-centrosymmetric crystal structure supported by theoretical calculations and necessary for stabilizing skyrmions. We show that the Curie temperature is well above room temperature, and that the skyrmions probed by topological Hall effect have sizes down to 15 nm as imaged by Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (LTEM) and magnetic force microscopy (MFM). Our results illustrate new avenues for creating artificial materials tailored at the atomic scale that can impact nanotechnology. |
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| spellingShingle | An Atomically Tailored Chiral Magnet with Small Skyrmions at Room Temperature Liu, Tao Selcu, Camelia M. Wang, Binbin Bagués, Núria Wu, Po-Kuan Hartnett, Timothy Q. Cheng, Shuyu Pelekhov, Denis Bennett, Roland A. Corbett, Joseph Perry Repicky, Jacob R. McCullian, Brendan Hammel, P. Chris Gupta, Jay A. Randeria, Mohit Balachandran, Prasanna V. McComb, David W. Kawakami, Roland K. Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Creating materials that do not exist in nature can lead to breakthroughs in science and technology. Magnetic skyrmions are topological excitations that have attracted great attention recently for their potential applications in low power, ultrahigh density memory. A major challenge has been to find materials that meet the dual requirement of small skyrmions stable at room temperature. Here we meet both these goals by developing epitaxial FeGe films with excess Fe using atomic layer molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) far from thermal equilibrium. Our novel atomic layer design permits the incorporation of 20% excess Fe while maintaining a non-centrosymmetric crystal structure supported by theoretical calculations and necessary for stabilizing skyrmions. We show that the Curie temperature is well above room temperature, and that the skyrmions probed by topological Hall effect have sizes down to 15 nm as imaged by Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (LTEM) and magnetic force microscopy (MFM). Our results illustrate new avenues for creating artificial materials tailored at the atomic scale that can impact nanotechnology. |
| title | An Atomically Tailored Chiral Magnet with Small Skyrmions at Room Temperature |
| topic | Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05106 |