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Issue 27, 2020

Voltage control of magnetic domain wall injection into strain-mediated multiferroic heterostructures

Abstract

Effective control of domain wall (DW) injection into magnetic nanowires is of great importance for future novel device applications in spintronics, and currently relies on magnetization switching by the local external magnetic field obtained from metal contact lines or a spin-transfer torque (STT) effect from spin-polarized current. However, the external field is an obstacle for realizing practical spintronic devices with all-electric operation, and high current density can occasionally damage the devices. In this work, voltage controlled in-plane magnetic DW injection into a magnetic nanowire in the strain-mediated multiferroic heterostructures is studied by means of fully coupled micromagnetic-mechanical Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations. We propose an engineered shaped nano-magnet on a piezoelectric thin film in which a 180° magnetization rotation in the DW injection region is accomplished with in-plane piezostrain and magnetic shape anisotropy, thereby, leading to a DW injection into the nanowire. In this architecture, we computationally demonstrate repeated creation of DWs by voltage-induced strains without using any magnetic fields. Our FEM simulation results demonstrated an ultralow area energy consumption per injection (∼52.48 mJ m−2), which is drastically lower than the traditional magnetic field and STT driven magnetization switching. A fast-overall injection time within ∼3.4 ns under continuous injection is also demonstrated. Further reduction of energy consumption and injection time can be achieved by optimization of the structure and material selections. The present design and computational analyses can provide an additional efficient method to realize low-power and high-speed spintronic and magnonic devices.

Graphical abstract: Voltage control of magnetic domain wall injection into strain-mediated multiferroic heterostructures

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
01 Apr 2020
Accepted
21 May 2020
First published
22 May 2020

Nanoscale, 2020,12, 14479-14486

Voltage control of magnetic domain wall injection into strain-mediated multiferroic heterostructures

H. Zhou, S. Shi, D. Nian, S. Cui, J. Luo, Y. Qiu, H. Yang, M. Zhu and G. Yu, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 14479 DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02595J

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