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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 98, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.134440
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- Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) of the government of India
- Nanomission Department of Science and Technology (DST)-Nanomission of the government of India [SR/NM/NS1088/2011(G)]
- DOE Office of Science User Facility [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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X-ray photoemission electron microscopy (XPEEM) and magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) microscopy have been performed on a metal-insulator multilayer of [Co80Fe20 (t = 1.8 nm)/Al2O3 (3 nm)(9) to image 360 degrees domain walls (DWs) along easy and hard axes, respectively. Their creation and annihilation can be directly visualized under application of a magnetic field. XPEEM experiments and micromagnetic simulations show that 360 degrees DWs occur through the merger of 180 degrees DWs of opposite chiralities along the easy axis. They are stable even under application of large magnetic fields. Formation of 360 degrees DWs observed along the hard axis is attributed to symmetry breaking of the coherent spin rotation. Their formation in metal-insulator multilayers is explained as being due to the presence of an orientational dispersion of anisotropy axes in the film grains that is comparable to an overall uniaxial anisotropy term. Our results are confirmed numerically using micromagnetic simulations.
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