期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 12, 期 8, 页码 9858-9864出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b13503
关键词
3D interfaces; magnetic multilayers; perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; exchange bias; ion irradiation
资金
- Helmholtz Young Investigator Initiative Grant [VH-N6-1048]
Interfaces separating ferromagnetic (FM) layers from non-ferromagnetic layers offer unique properties due to spin-orbit coupling and symmetry breaking, yielding effects such as exchange bias, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, spin-pumping, spin-transfer torques, and conversion between charge and spin currents and vice versa. These interfacial phenomena play crucial roles in magnetic data storage and transfer applications, which require the formation of FM nanostructures embedded in non-ferromagnetic matrices. Here, we investigate the possibility of creating such nanostructures by ion irradiation. We study the effect of lateral confinement on the ion-irradiation-induced reduction of nonmagnetic metal oxides (e.g., antiferro- or paramagnetic) to form ferromagnetic metals. Our findings are later exploited to form three-dimensional magnetic interfaces between Co, CoO, and Pt by spatial-selective irradiation of CoO/Pt multilayers. We demonstrate that the mechanical displacement of O atoms plays a crucial role in the reduction from insulating, non-ferromagnetic cobalt oxides to metallic cobalt. Metallic cobalt yields both perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in the generated Co/Pt nanostructures and, at low temperatures, exchange bias at vertical interfaces between Co and CoO. If pushed to the limit of ion-irradiation technology, this approach could, in principle, enable the creation of densely packed, atomic-scale ferromagnetic point-contact spin-torque oscillator (STO) networks or conductive channels for current-confined-path-based current perpendicular-to-plane giant magnetoresistance read heads.
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