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Control of field- and current-driven magnetic domain wall motion by exchange bias in Cr2O3/Co/Pt trilayers

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 106, Issue 13, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.134411

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  1. Swiss National Science Foundation [PZ00P2-179944, 200020-200465]
  2. ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship Program [19-2 FEL-61]
  3. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [PID2021-122980OA-C53]
  4. Comunidad de Madrid through the Atraccion de Talento program [2020-T1/IND-20041]
  5. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PZ00P2_179944] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

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In this study, we investigated the effect of magnetic fields and current-driven spin-orbit torques on the motion of magnetic domain walls in an exchange-biased system with perpendicular magnetization. The results show that exchange bias can control the direction and velocity of domain wall propagation, and remains stable under external fields and current pulses.
We investigate the motion of magnetic domain walls driven by magnetic fields and current-driven spin-orbit torques in an exchange-biased system with perpendicular magnetization. We consider Cr2O3/Co/Pt trilayers as a model system, in which the magnetization of the Co layer can be exchanged biased out-of-plane or in -plane depending on the field-cooling direction. In field-driven experiments, the in-plane exchange bias favors the propagation of the domain walls with internal magnetization parallel to the exchange-bias field. In current-driven experiments, the domain walls propagate along the current direction, but the domain wall velocity increases and decreases symmetrically (antisymmetrically) for both current polarities when the exchange bias is parallel (perpendicular) to the current line. At zero external field, the exchange bias modifies the velocity of current -driven domain wall motion by a factor of 10. We also find that the exchange bias remains stable under external fields up to 15 kOe and nanosecond-long current pulses with current density up to 3.5 x 1012 A/m. Our results demonstrate versatile control of the domain wall motion by exchange bias, which is relevant to achieve field -free switching of the magnetization in perpendicular systems and current-driven manipulation of domain walls velocity in spintronic devices.

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