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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 131, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0092222
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- European Regional Development Fund (EFRE)
- Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate [84002616]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [268565370]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [856538]
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Periodical wire-width modulation can effectively suppress the Walker breakdown in confined wires, maintaining the spin structure of domain walls. This approach is crucial for expanding the operating range of devices and reducing stochasticity in domain wall propagation.
Suppression of the Walker breakdown in confined wires is key to improving the operation and reliability of magnetic domain-wall-based devices, including logic, memory, and sensor applications. Here, via micromagnetic simulations, we demonstrate that periodical wire-width modulation with suitable geometric parameters can fully suppress the Walker breakdown of a field-driven domain wall, conserving its spin structure in the whole operating field range of a device. Key differences in the efficacy of the wire-width modulation are observed for wires with different widths and thicknesses such that different domain wall states are energetically stable. In particular, the approach is found to be effective in expanding the field-operating window of a device in the case of smaller wire widths and thicknesses (below 150 nm wide and 15 nm thick), whereas in larger wires, the advantages from the suppression in the Walker breakdown are counteracted by the increase in domain wall pinning and the reduction in the nucleation field for new domain walls. Simulations on intersecting magnetic wires prove the importance of suppression of the Walker breakdown. Since the domain wall behavior is chirality dependent, introducing periodical wire-width modulation conserves the spin structure, thus reducing stochasticity of the domain wall propagation. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.
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