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Micromagnetic Design of Skyrmionic Materials and Chiral Magnetic Configurations in Patterned Nanostructures for Neuromorphic and Qubit Applications
Our study addresses the problematics of magnetic skyrmions, nanometer-size vortex-like swirling topological defects, broadly studied today for applications in classic, neuromorphic and quantum information technologies. We tackle some challenging issues of material properties versus skyrmion stabilit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9782460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36558263 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12244411 |
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author | One, Roxana-Alina Mican, Sever CimpoesȖu, Angela-Georgiana Joldos, Marius Tetean, Romulus Tiușan, Coriolan Viorel |
author_facet | One, Roxana-Alina Mican, Sever CimpoesȖu, Angela-Georgiana Joldos, Marius Tetean, Romulus Tiușan, Coriolan Viorel |
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description | Our study addresses the problematics of magnetic skyrmions, nanometer-size vortex-like swirling topological defects, broadly studied today for applications in classic, neuromorphic and quantum information technologies. We tackle some challenging issues of material properties versus skyrmion stability and manipulation within a multiple-scale modeling framework, involving complementary ab-initio and micromagnetic frameworks. Ab-initio calculations provide insight into the anatomy of the magnetic anisotropy, the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya asymmetric exchange interaction (DMI) and their response to a gating electric field. Various multi-layered heterostructures were specially designed to provide electric field tunable perpendicular magnetization and sizeable DMI, which are required for skyrmion occurrence. Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert micromagnetic calculations in nanometric disks allowed the extraction of material parameter phase diagrams in which magnetic textures were classified according to their topological charge. We identified suitable ranges of magnetic anisotropy, DMI and saturation magnetization for stabilizing skyrmionic ground states or writing/manipulating them using either a spin-transfer torque of a perpendicular current or the electric field. From analyzing the different contributions to the total magnetic free energy, we point out some critical properties influencing the skyrmions’ stability. Finally, we discuss some experimental issues related to the choice of materials or the design of novel magnetic materials compatible with skyrmionic applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-97824602022-12-24 Micromagnetic Design of Skyrmionic Materials and Chiral Magnetic Configurations in Patterned Nanostructures for Neuromorphic and Qubit Applications One, Roxana-Alina Mican, Sever CimpoesȖu, Angela-Georgiana Joldos, Marius Tetean, Romulus Tiușan, Coriolan Viorel Nanomaterials (Basel) Article Our study addresses the problematics of magnetic skyrmions, nanometer-size vortex-like swirling topological defects, broadly studied today for applications in classic, neuromorphic and quantum information technologies. We tackle some challenging issues of material properties versus skyrmion stability and manipulation within a multiple-scale modeling framework, involving complementary ab-initio and micromagnetic frameworks. Ab-initio calculations provide insight into the anatomy of the magnetic anisotropy, the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya asymmetric exchange interaction (DMI) and their response to a gating electric field. Various multi-layered heterostructures were specially designed to provide electric field tunable perpendicular magnetization and sizeable DMI, which are required for skyrmion occurrence. Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert micromagnetic calculations in nanometric disks allowed the extraction of material parameter phase diagrams in which magnetic textures were classified according to their topological charge. We identified suitable ranges of magnetic anisotropy, DMI and saturation magnetization for stabilizing skyrmionic ground states or writing/manipulating them using either a spin-transfer torque of a perpendicular current or the electric field. From analyzing the different contributions to the total magnetic free energy, we point out some critical properties influencing the skyrmions’ stability. Finally, we discuss some experimental issues related to the choice of materials or the design of novel magnetic materials compatible with skyrmionic applications. MDPI 2022-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9782460/ /pubmed/36558263 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12244411 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article One, Roxana-Alina Mican, Sever CimpoesȖu, Angela-Georgiana Joldos, Marius Tetean, Romulus Tiușan, Coriolan Viorel Micromagnetic Design of Skyrmionic Materials and Chiral Magnetic Configurations in Patterned Nanostructures for Neuromorphic and Qubit Applications |
title | Micromagnetic Design of Skyrmionic Materials and Chiral Magnetic Configurations in Patterned Nanostructures for Neuromorphic and Qubit Applications |
title_full | Micromagnetic Design of Skyrmionic Materials and Chiral Magnetic Configurations in Patterned Nanostructures for Neuromorphic and Qubit Applications |
title_fullStr | Micromagnetic Design of Skyrmionic Materials and Chiral Magnetic Configurations in Patterned Nanostructures for Neuromorphic and Qubit Applications |
title_full_unstemmed | Micromagnetic Design of Skyrmionic Materials and Chiral Magnetic Configurations in Patterned Nanostructures for Neuromorphic and Qubit Applications |
title_short | Micromagnetic Design of Skyrmionic Materials and Chiral Magnetic Configurations in Patterned Nanostructures for Neuromorphic and Qubit Applications |
title_sort | micromagnetic design of skyrmionic materials and chiral magnetic configurations in patterned nanostructures for neuromorphic and qubit applications |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9782460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36558263 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12244411 |
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