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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 107, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.L100412
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Strong, adjustable magnetic couplings are important for devices based on magnetic materials. This study demonstrates strong exchange-based coupling between arbitrarily shaped regions of a single ferrimagnetic layer by spatially patterning the compensation temperature. The coupling generates large lateral exchange coupling fields and can be used to control the switching of magnetically compensated dots with an electric current.
Strong, adjustable magnetic couplings are of great importance to all devices based on magnetic materials. Controlling the coupling between adjacent regions of a single magnetic layer, however, is challenging. In this work, we demonstrate strong exchange-based coupling between arbitrarily shaped regions of a single ferrimagnetic layer. This is achieved by spatially patterning the compensation temperature of the ferrimagnet by either oxidation or He+ irradiation. The coupling originates at the lateral interface between regions with different compensation temperature and scales inversely with their width. We show that this coupling generates large lateral exchange coupling fields and we demonstrate its application to control the switching of magnetically compensated dots with an electric current.
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